Valeria Vasylets got minimal sleep over the past few days, as she and others organize aid to send to her native Ukraine.

“Here we have medicine, there we have food, there we have clothes,” Vasylets said pointing to packed boxes.

It all started with one post to her Instagram page, asking her friends for donations to send medicine to West Ukraine.

“It blew out so big, people started calling if you have any donations, if you do anything,” she added. 

A few others had the same idea in mind and merged initiatives with Vasylets, collecting items in a basement in Gravesend, Brooklyn.

Almost all volunteers have ties to Ukraine and felt helpless thousands of miles away in New York, after Russian forces began to attack.

“They understand their country is under siege, they understand that their loved ones are being hurt in Ukraine, they understand that we are being bombarded and everyone wants to do what they can to pitch in,” Bohdan Hawryluk said, a volunteer working with the group.

Organizers say they don’t collect any money and are utilizing the shipping company Meest to send these needed items packaged carefully in labeled boxes to Poland and then to West Ukraine.

“Their government there accepts the boxes from us and they distribute it between volunteers, Red Cross and stuff like that to different regions,” Vasylets said.

Vasylets admits, this is her first time organizing an effort like this and said the help from volunteers has been outstanding.

“Everyone works like a team, we are like family here, restaurants brings us food, they feed us, bring us coffee and stuff,” she said.

Many volunteers say they work around the clock, taking very few breaks.

“We just can’t stop right now, even if I wanted to close it down, that’s why we’re definitely not stopping until we are needed,” Vasylets said.