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Help a Young Woman!
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In 2002, Oksana Koren was
taking a walk with her 4-year-old
daughter along a country road. Suddenly,
her daughter’s life was ended, and
hers was turned into a living hell by
the drunk driver who crashed into them.
Oksana, who is now 27, is asking for our
help. Her little girl is gone, and she
has had both legs amputated because of
the accident. She relies totally on her
mother but desperately wants to walk,
and become independent. She writes, “I
am a young woman – I don’t want to
stay an invalid in a wheelchair – I
want to walk again!”
UUARC’s-Kyiv’s Director, Ms. Vira
Prinko, visited Ms. Koren to deliver the
$500 from our Assistance Committee. This
amount is to be matched by the Ukrainian
community in Glen Spey, but even with
this donation, Oksana will still be
$1,900 short of the $2,900 required so
she can be fitted for prostheses and
walk on her own again. Ms. Prinko
reports that Oksana is very, very
determined to become independent, and is
also extremely brave. She has written to
many institutions for help, including
the President of Ukraine, and UUARC is
the only organization to have responded
to date.
If you would like to help Oksana, please
send donations to UUARC, Inc., 1206
Cottman Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19111,
or on-line by clicking
here. Please write “Oksana Koren’”
on your donation, and we will be able to
cover her expenses for her prostheses.
Oksana’s letter ends with this
sentence, “I am not a beggar, just a
person who wants to be like everyone
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