IGFM – To Our House, with an “Extremist” Greeting
Once again, America is sending astronauts to the Moon, and once again the IGFM Wittlich Working Group is dispatching a humanitarian convoy to Our House. This truckload of aid is the 21st in total, and the cumulative volume of distributed assistance has long exceeded 300 tonnes.
For both organizations, this volunteer work has become routine. On Friday, IGFM Wittlich reports that the pre-sorted furniture, boxes, and bags have been loaded onto the truck and are on their way, while Our House in Vilnius begins calling volunteers with strong physical capacity. Each delivery brings around 15 tonnes of cargo, and every single item must be unloaded from the truck, placed on the ramp, and then carefully arranged in the warehouse. Storage space is limited: if items are stacked carelessly, the remaining cargo simply will not fit and will be left outside.
This is the 21st truck overall and the 17th unloaded at this particular warehouse, and experience shows. While the first deliveries required 50–60 people working 6–7 hours, today a team of just 20 people emptied an 86-cubic-metre semi-trailer in exactly 120 minutes, as confirmed by the timestamped photographs.
IGFM thoughtfully provides beds, mattresses, bicycles, kitchenware, clothing, and footwear; occasionally there are also long-life food supplies and hygiene products. All of this is essential for Belarusian former political prisoners whom Alexander Lukashenko has effectively forced into Lithuania not only without personal belongings, but even without passports. There is every reason to believe they are deliberately sent away with nothing, in the hope that they will suffer. Those hopes are in vain: Our House and IGFM will not allow them to suffer. Perhaps this is precisely why the Lukashenko regime has designated IGFM’s social media as “extremist materials” in Belarus, just as it previously did with nearly all of Our House’s platforms.
We regard this as a mark of significance—and an achievement.
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