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U N W LA Report Presented Before The G FW C Convention, June 9,1965 Madam Chairman, Madam President, Delegates: I am deeply honored to bring to you greetings from the Uk rainian National Women’s League. We are a service and cultural organization founded 40 years ago by the im m igrant women from Ukraine. Our purpose is to prom ulgate the interests of women in cul tural-educational, civic, and world a ffa irs ; preserve and pro mote U krainian traditions, lan guage, music, arts and crafts, and to provide m aterial and hu m anitarian assistance to our people here and abroad. Our projects differ but little from those of the GFWC. We support schools and nurseries in Germany and A ustria. We help the aged through our “Adopt a G randm other” project, created in 1958, and currently we are helping 3 grandm others in Po land, 12 in W. Germany, 6 in Czechoslovakia, 2 in A ustria, 1 in France and 1 in Belgium. To better coordinate the work of the Ukrainian women, who were in exile and who resettled in the Free World after World W ar II, the League in 1948 called a congress of U krainian women, thus paving the way for the World Federation of U krain ian Women’s Organizations. We now have federated clubs in A us tria, France, Germany, Belgium, England, Brazil, Argentina, A ustralia and Canada. Through our official organ the journal “Our Life,” we m aintain con tacts w ith these organizations and are kept informed of w hat type of work they are carrying on in their respective countries. On the national level here, we promote educational seminars, good citizenship workshops, as well as folk a rt classes and exhi bits, support our underprivi leged, and m aintain 12 pre school children’s day centers. We have published children’s books as well as English transla tions of the works of renowned Ukrainian w riters. On the general community level our branches work with the Red Cross, Cancer foundations, Community Chest, I n te n tio n a l Institutes, and other civic and women’s organizations. Our money-raising projects enable us to make contributions to our churches, Ukrainian language schools, orphanages, and other w orthy causes. Currently we are concerned w ith our senior citi zens and are working on a build ing fund for a home for the aged. L ast year we contributed to the Memorial Fund for the erection of a monument, in W ashington, D. C., to U kraine’s Poet Laureate and Europe’s Freedom Fighter, Taras Shev chenko. Our goal has been not only to educate our women through community participation, and to help our new-comers to love their adopted homeland, but it has also been to emphasize the dangerous th reat of Commun ism to America and the Am eri can way of life. And this th reat is not from w ithout but from within. The U krainian people, perhaps more than any oth er, have suffered the w rath of communism, and those who are still free to speak out are doing everything possible to keep America strong. America is the last hope for all sub merged nations. In this regard you have our deepest gratitude for adopting on Tuesday, Resolu tion No. 13. W hen our members learn of this they will laud this Convention for taking this step. Furtherm ore, as women of the free world we cannot be silent as long as there are Captive Na tions, and among them 45 mil lion Ukrainians. We have there fore re-dedicated ourselves to the cause of freedom, and to service. It is our hope th a t through your Federation we m ay reach a better joint under- HELP US TO BURN THE UNWLA MORTGAGE It i s our fervent hope that we w i ll be able to burn the mortgage of the UNWLA Home at our coming Convention, November 26, 1965. All our Branches are in agreement with this proposi tion, however we have still been unsuccessful in collecting the $3,211.00 which remains to be paid off on the mortgage. In a letter to the Executive Board the members of Branch 63 in Detroit suggested that if each member of every Branch in the UNWLA was to donate only $1.00, the sum would be paid off in no time. Included with the letter was a check for the sum of $94.00, which the members had collected in their own Branch. We think the idea is an un usually fine one, not only be cause it will enable us to collect the needed sum before the Con vention date, but also because every UNWLA member will thus be given the opportunity to aid us in our campaign. Have you sent in your dona tion? The Executive Board of the UNWLA OUR NEW MEMBERS We are indeed proud and hap py to welcome into our ranks the new members who joined the English-speaking Branches of the UNWLA in 1964-1965. UNWLA Branch 53 in Long Island City, N. Y.: Diane Ker- netsky, Stefanie Rygel. UNWLA Branch 72 in New York, N. Y .: H erta Bereza, Julia Lys, Rosalie C. Polche, M ary E. Pressy, Celia Saranoff, Cather ine Sharabura, Anne Wasylkow. The Executive Board of the UNWLA. standing and appreciation of each other’s work, and jointly work for “service for freedom and grow th” and for a better world community of free men. Thank you. , Anastasia Volker Public Relations Chairman 20 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ — ВЕРЕСЕНЬ, 1965 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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