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WFUWO'S Welfare A recently settled or re-settled community has special welfare problems of its own. Its immig rant members are on the move and in this situation are more exposed to special hardships not experienced by settled commu nities. Official welfare authori ties have taken it into consider ation. Ukrainian women’s organiza tions are even more concerned by these problems. In serving their own communities they would like to see them well established. Deficiencies of the Ukrainian individual are a hard task to be handled. Unemployment, lack of accommodations, disease and nervous breakdown are among the most frequent cases. N atalie K o b ry n sk a TORCH IN THE DARKNESS This is the title of a biography, its author Irene Knysh gave as the life of Natalie Kobrynska (1850-1920). Being an initiator of the Ukrainian women’s movement, Natalia Kobrynska marked her way by several steps. It was the establisment of the first woman’s organization in 1864, the publication of an alma nac “First Wreath” in 1887, the petition to the Austrian parlia ment asking for the admission of women to institutions of higher learning in 1890, a women’s meeting where she called for the formation and establishment of nursery schools in 1891 and many other beginnings. Besides that she was a talented writer. Her short stories served also to depict the needs of the Ukrain ian women of her time. In living in Western countries Ukrainian newcomers are vastly benefited by the wide scope of welfare programs here. These benefits vary as to kind and degree in that it offers social security, unemployment compen sation, medical services and training. With this type of help a relief action is not necessary. Nevertheless the needs of the Ukrainian people are immense and urgent. They are even harder to understand and to help than the material destitution. Every individual in this situa tion is like a plant, torn from its roots and transplanted. He has to cope with the language barrier and foreign customs and institu tions. The older he is the harder for him to adjust. Sometimes he succeds in it and becomes accus tomed to his new environment. But very often he does not and his endeavors end with him in the plight of his life. WFUWO’s Welfare Commit tee, situated in Toronto, Canada has to take all this into consider ation. Its work is twofold: acquaintance with the needs of the Ukrainian community and the welfare program of the new country. This vast program could be fulfilled only with the help of trained social workers of Ukrainian descent. And they are available. As members of the Welfare Committee of WFUWO they entered the Ukrainian Ca nadian Social Welfare Service, Ontario Branch. In November 1960 a Ukrainian Welfare Re ferral Bureau was founded in Toronto. This office attracted the needy and showed the most frequent cases. The social work ers helped to place them in the Canadian welfare program. Later an urgent need for vol untary helpers developed. Social workers could not cope with all requirements like home and hos pital visits. Soon a group of vol untary women was trained to complete or support the work of the Welfare Referral Bureau. In a short time social workers de monstrated to them the most frequent cases and instructed these volunteers in handling them. In this way the Ukrainians built up their own special wel fare program. The office is maintained by the Ukrainian Ca nadian Welfare Service, with vol untary workers pouring in from women’s organizations. Through understanding and cooperation of all these elements the wel fare work is developing. Each element is conscious of others needs and merits. The idea of voluntary helpers is now used in other Canadian cities having Ukrainian commun ities. It is easier now to start it and to succeed. It is a much harder task to initiate this pro gram in other countries with Ukrainian settlements. But, with help of WFUWO’s member or ganizations some success has been achieved there also. In the Ukrainian communities of the U.S.A. similar work is under way. The Welfare Com mittee of WFUWO in Detroit organized a course. That vol untary group is already working under the leadership of the UN WLA Regional Council. A com ing survey of social work, in Ukrainian papers, is planned. Eugenia Yankivska WFUWO Welfare Chairman PRO ECCLESIA ET PONTIFICE Dr. Stefanie Pototsky, social leader of Ukrainian descent in Canada, was decorated with the medal “Pro Ecclesia et Ponti- fice” for her outstanding work. As President of the League of Ukrainian Catholic Women of Canada, member of the School Board in Yorkton and Vice-Pres ident of the Federation of Wom en Physicians of Canada Mrs. Pototsky is the first Ukrainian woman to receive this decora tion. There are only 639 women who received this medal, in the whole world. 18 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ — ГРУДЕНЬ, 1964 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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