Liberty Moving and Storage teams up with local companies to collect donations in Ukraine Aid Drive
WEST WAREHAM, Mass., 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 MA and RI where donations will be sent directly to Lviv, Ukraine via Krakow, Poland. Liberty Moving and Storage, 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, a total of sixteen tractor-trailer trucks were filled.
The Ukraine Aid Drive humanitarian event was hosted and organized by multiple locally-based companies including Liberty Moving and Storage. The donations were gathered at the all-day event at Cardi's Furniture locations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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 Liberty Moving, Arpin RI, and Rhodey Transportation 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 Liberty, says of seeing the massive amount of donations "The thought and generosity of the RI and MA folks are 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, Liberty 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 RI, Arpin International Group, Cardi's Furniture, 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.
Liberty Moving & Storage, and its sister company Arpin of Rhode Island, are headquartered in West Wareham, MA. The histories of Liberty Moving & Storage & Arpin of RI are the tale of two families that literally define the moving and storage industry in Southern New England. With a reputation for providing excellent service and a unique focus on preserving the environment, Liberty and Arpin are the only U.S.-based, family-owned, and operated movers that have remained successful for more than a century.
Learn more about Liberty Moving and Storage and our commitment to helping our community on our website https://libertymovingandstorage.com/
Media Contact
Stephen Filonow, Liberty Moving and Storage, 1 401-320-8527, [email protected]
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