| Adopt-a-Grandparent
- Senior "Adoption" Program
- financial aid to the elderly in Ukraine. |
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| Soup
Kitchen - in Lviv feeds homeless,
elderly and infirm five days a week |
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Mykolayiw
Soup Kitchen |
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| Children’s
Camps - UUARC sends 300+ children to
summer camps throughout Ukraine, and also
supports Ukrainian youth camps in the US. |
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| Orphans
- Orphanages and boarding schools
throughout Ukraine receive donations of
clothing and personal items, computers and
bicycles. |
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| Holiday
Student Exchange - Children from
orphanages visit other parts of Ukraine for
the Christmas and Easter Holidays in a
cultural exchange program. |
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| Assistance
Committee - The Assistance Committee
receives and processes requests for
assistance. The requests are reviewed and
granted when possible. |
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| Farm
Aid - Loans to emergent farms for
start-up costs. |
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| Information
Bureau - the program based in UUARC
headquarters provides legal counsel and
information on immigration issues. |
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| Vocational
Training Program - for disadvantaged
and disabled children was established in
1993 in eleven youth homes in Western
Ukraine with USAID funding, and jointly
administered by World Learning, Inc. and
UUARC. It is a self-sustaining program. |
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| "Nadia"
- the thrift store opened in Lviv during
the 1993-1996 Grant is still
self-sustaining, selling donated clothing
and products made by special-needs
children trained in the woodworking and
sewing shops. |
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| Eyeglass
Program - started in 1997 in thirteen
eastern regions of Ukraine. Over 10,000
orphans were examined and received new
eyeglasses. |
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Educational
Programs - since 1991.
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Over
fifty universities in Ukraine have
been provided with complete sets of
Encyclopedia Britannica.
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50
small printing presses were funded
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Over
10,000 books, 1,000 Webster's
Dictionaries and 20 computers were
donated to schools and libraries
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Medical
and Relief Assistance Program - since
1991.
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Medical
supplies, equipment and over the
counter medicines were donated to 28
hospitals in Eastern and Western
Ukraine.
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Financial
aid, food and clothing are distributed
via UUARC offices in Ukraine to the
impoverished, accident victims, coal
miners, orphans and large families in
Ukraine.
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Shoe
program - new shoes supplied to 1000
orphans in Luhansk.
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Clothing
and financial assistance is given to
orphanages in Romania, Poland, and
Bosnia Herzegovina.
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| Agricultural
Project Brazil - UUARC established an
agricultural fund, which grants mortgages
to poor farmers in Brazil. |
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