Arpin Rhode Island teams up with local organizations to collect donations at Ukraine Aid Drive resulting in outstanding amount of donations.
WEST WARWICK, R.I., April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Cars lined up for miles on March 12th to donate to the Ukraine Aid Drive outside of multiple Cardi's Furniture locations in RI and MA where donations will be sent directly to Lviv, Ukraine via Krakow, Poland. Arpin Rhode Island, a local company involved in organizing the Drive, expected to fill 3 tractor-trailer sized moving trucks with boxes of donations containing clothing, toiletries, blankets, and infant care items, but quickly discovered this event would need more space. By the end of the event, nine Arpin trucks were filled along with another seven Rhodey Transportation trucks.
The Ukraine Aid Drive humanitarian event was hosted and organized by multiple locally-based companies including Arpin of Rhode Island Moving and Storage. The donations were gathered at the all-day event at Cardi's Furniture locations in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
The event was a huge success, attracting crowds of generous community members, with mile-long lines of cars coming to each location. The generosity of the community members who contributed to the event has exceeded all expectations and filled up sixteen Arpin and Rhodey trucks with packaged necessities including socks, hats, blankets, soap and other toiletries, canned goods, and infant care supplies. In West Warwick, tractor-trailers quickly filled up, and donations were delivered directly to the Arpin of RI location in town, awaiting more truck space. Steven Filonow, VP of Service Quality and Marketing at Arpin Rhode Island, says of seeing the massive amount of donations "The thought and generosity of the RI and MA folks is absolutely amazing and awe-inspiring. Hundreds of people went to the store and bought hundreds of dollars worth of items and donated them".
Following the event, Arpin Rhode Island employees are diligently working around the clock to sort, pack, and ship all of the donated materials to go directly to those who need it the most in Ukraine and Poland. Each package will be sorted into categories so that they are easily found and distributed, and shipped with care in international shipping containers. Filonow estimates that the donations will add up to the equivalent of 20 international shipping containers. Arpin RI will continue to pack up all the materials that the community generously donated during the Aid Drive until every single donation is ready to make the trip to those who need it most.
The Ukraine Aid Drive was also made possible with the effort of many other local and international groups including Arpin International Group, Cardi's Furniture, Liberty Moving & Storage LLC, Rhody Transportation, and Warehousing, Inc., Ocean State Job Lot, Allscapes Landscaping, Big Blue Bug Solutions, Carpet Cleaning Experts, M&G Trucking Company, Sampson Trucking LLC, Pilotte's Refrigeration, Gaskell's Towing, Alta Material Handling, and Flat River Pallet.
Arpin of Rhode Island is a local moving company headquartered in West Warwick. Over the last century, Arpin became the trusted local name and leader in the residential moving industry for moving services in the RI, CT, and MA communities. With a reputation for providing excellent service and a unique focus on preserving the environment, Arpin is the only U.S.-based, family-owned, and operated mover that has remained successful for more than a century. Arpin grew into a top-five national van line, but the local agent, Arpin Rhode Island, remains family-owned and operated to serve southern New England's local moving needs.
Learn more about Arpin of Rhode Island and our commitment to helping our community on our website https://arpinri.com/
Media Contact
Stephen Filonow, Arpin Rhode Island, 1 401-320-8527, [email protected]
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