In January 2026 Seven Informatics purchased refurbished IT equipment from UK suppliers, for shipment to Ukraine: a 42u rack cabinet, three HP Proliant servers, a Cisco security appliance, an HP Uninterruptible Power Supply with battery extension pack, and a 12Tb QNAP NAS.
The equipment was transported from Oxford to Ukraine on a Mitsubishi L200 pickup truck, also purchased by Seven Informatics. On arrival it was donated to the NGO 100% Life Rivne and was passed on by them to the Rivne Vocational College of IT.
The truck was loaded up with the equipment and some other humanitarian aid, then taken on the ferry from Harwich to the Hook of Holland and driven across a snowy Netherlands, Germany and Poland to the border crossing at Medyka.
Across the border the snow conditions were quite treacherous but the truck arrived safely in a village just outside Lviv where the equipment was unloaded. From there a van was due to take it onward to Rivne but the snow had cut off the roads from there so it was instead left for the Ukrainian postal service (Nova Post) to pick up and deliver once the weather conditions improved.
Staff from 100% Life Rivne picked up the shipment from the Nova Post depot and delivered it to the IT College the following week.
The equipment was presented by John Chelsom, CEO of Seven Informatics, to Petro Korzhevsky, Director of the Department of Education, Rivne Region, and Olha Stepanchenko, Director of the Rivne Vocational College for Information Technology.
Work began immediately to fit out a server room into which the equipment is being installed, using specifications outlined in the World Bank’s Handbook for Rural Telemedicine in Ukraine.
The Mitsubishi L200 was donated to the heroes of Ukraine and is now bring used by medics of the first battalion of the 53rd mechanized brigade.
