Lida Melnyk, the manager of UUARC's headquarters office in Philadelphia, coordinated with American government officials to help obtain a trailer and a 40-foot container for the "Orange wave" Ukrainian American community organization in Chicago. The "Orange wave" organized a campaign to pack the trailer with relief supplies for Ukraine.

On January 13, 2007, despite the biting wing and cold temperatures, a group of volunteers gathered near "Selfreliance" ("Samopomich"), which graciously allows the uses of one of its buildings for storage of collected items to be sent to Ukraine. The hardy group managed to pack and load over 600 boxes of humanitarian assistance items to Ukraine. After three hours of work, the task was completed and the volunteers were rewarded with a well-earned lunch, provided with the compliments of "Selfreliance." These dedicated individuals were: Rev. Mykhaylo Melnyk, Lubomyr and Halia Boryslavsky, Taras Vasylyk, Taras Dubyk, Lesia Kapustianska, Yaroslav Kupchak, Roman Rad, Mykhaylo and Halia Uhryn, Yuriy Soroka and Roman Yatskovsky.

This particular relief effort is being directed to several orphanages and boarding homes in western Ukraine. It is already the sixth container being sent to Ukraine by the "new wave" immigrants in the Chicago area, with the broad-based assistance of the entire Ukrainian American community. The last two containers were specifically organized and sent by the "Orange wave" organization. Their rewards are the letters of gratitude from the orphans in Ukraine who received clothing, shoes and other supplies from their brethren in Chicago. In one of the letters, in a simple but moving poem entitled "A thank you to the people of Chicago," the orphans promise not to forget their benefactors and beseech God to bestow his graces upon them.