UUARC Helps...
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UUARC continues its fund drive
to provide wheelchairs for
invalids in Ukraine; the cost is
$75 per wheelchair. The next
shipment (280 wheelchairs) is
scheduled for the summer of
2007. To date, 840 have been
distributed.
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The
“Adopt-a-Grandparent” program
also continues. Due to the
difficult economic conditions in
Ukraine, many elderly persons
await your sponsorship – $180
annually improves their lives
significantly
In
April, a letter of gratitude
arrived from the parents of Ivan Keyvan, from Ivano-Frankivsk,
expressing their sincere thanks
for the aid they received while
their son was undergoing
treatment at Shriners’ Burn
Center in Boston. They are
especially thankful for the
financial assistance they
received, help in finding a
place to reside, as well as for
the kind-hearted generosity that
UUARC extended to them!
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United Ukrainian American Relief
Committee
continuously aids Ukrainians in
need: the ill, the impoverished,
orphans, the disables and the
aged.
Listed
below are a few examples of
assistance provided in the first
quarter of 2007.:
· O.M.—a
woman from Kopachneve,
Zakarpattya oblast, who was
injured in an auto accident -
$300.
· N.D.—a
one-year old girl from Slovyansk,
Donetska obl, deaf from birth
received $500 for an operation,
and a fund drive has brought in
an additional $930 to date.
· P.H.-
a 2-year-old boy in Zboriv,
Ternopil obl. needs an operation
for a heart defect—$300.
· N.I.-.a
12-year-old boy from Makarove,
Odessa obl. needs an operation
for a heart defect -$300
· V.H.—an
elderly woman from Chernihiv obl.
received $400 for an eye
operation.
S.H.– an
11-year-old boy from Drohobych,
Lviv obl., lost both arms in a
farm machine. Received $500 for
prostheses
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· A.O.–
a 29-year-old woman from
Kremenchuh,
Poltava obl., an invalid
since she was 8 - received $500
· P.P.—a
man from Ruzhyn, Zhytomyr obl.,
who worked on the
Chornobylnuclear reactor clean-
up, received $200 for
medication.
· “Child
Rescue” philanthropic fund for
children with Leukemia in the
city of L’viv-$500.
· “Ukrainian
Family” charitable fund which
works with abandoned and
troubled children in the city of
Ternopil $1,000
· “Ukrainian
Family” charitablfund which
works with abandoned and
troubled children in the city of
Kharkiv, $500
· Charitable
fund “Berehynia” which works
against substance abuse in
Brody, L’viv obl. $500
· “Orphan’s
Future” fund which helps orphans
after they leave orphanages in
Ternopil, $300.
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Children
from Kherson in L’viv
N.D. with
her mother
Children from Kherson learn to
make “pysanky” Easter eggs while
visiting L’viv
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UUARC expands “Soup Kitchen”
Program
UUARC has added two “Soup
Kitchen” locations to the one in
L’viv, which has been feeding 50
people since 1998. The two
newest locations are in
Mykolayiv (75 people) and
Zaporizhzhya (30 people). The
warm meals bring warm smiles
from the guests, for whom this
is usually their only nutritious
meal, and who also benefit from
the social interaction. Only
the generous donations from
UUARC’s contributors make this
program possible!
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“Know
Your Native Land” Program
Through the efforts of UUARC’s
Lviv office, during the 2007
Easter holidays, a group of
orphans and parentless children
from the Kherson boarding school
(24 pupils and 2 instructors)
were invited to L’viv. They
visited the historic city’s many
churches, museums and its
“Vysokyj Zamok”(high castle),
where Mykola Nazaruk (a lecturer
at Ivan Franko University)
narrated the history of L’viv.
Over the recent Christmas
holidays, children from Luhansk
oblast visited the capital city
of Kyiv; other groups of
children arrived in L’viv from
Kherson and Lutuhyno. This
exchange program allows children
to learn about different regions
of their native land.
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In April, the UUARC Information
Bureau started its eighth
American citizenship exam
Preparation Course. US residents
who are unable to attend the
course may receive a preparatory
packet via mail for $25
from:
UUARC Inc.
1206 Cottman Ave. Philadelphia,PA 19111
(215) 728-1630
Fax: (215) 728-1631
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