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within emigrant communities of western Europe. With the Decade for Women serving as a back ground for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the UNWLA, we must admit that although we, as women, strive for equality, our priorities differ from those put forth by women of independent nations. Today we direct our efforts to preserving our Ukrainian identity outside the boundaries of Ukraine, dispensing information about Ukraine and defending its good name. The 50 year activity of UNWLA was thoroughly des cribed at the Jubilee Convention in 1975. Today it is important to discuss outstanding events of the last decade. This will be an insider’s report, rather than an objective evaluation which can only be provided by someone who had no part in the planning or execution of the programs of the organization. The greatest achievement of this particular time span was the opening of the Ukrainian Museum in New York City in 1976. The Museum became an important institution in a city which is the cultural capital of the United States and in the nine years since it was opened to the public, it has done an enormous amount of work. The Museum needs new and larger quarters. Unfortu nately, neither our community nor members of UNWLA fully realize the needs, meaning and potential of this institution. With full support, the Ukrainian Museum can become a powerful and rightful representative of our cultural heritage as well as a research center. The welfare program of our organization seems to be the most popular among our members. The scholar ship fund, which aids students in South America and Europe, is growing steadily, thanks to the work of our welfare chairwomen and the cooperation of Branches. The scholarship fund is built on individual donations and there are many people of good will who have been supporing this fund for many years. Branches of UNWLA have given their input into other aspects of the welfare program, such as providing aid to dissidents, to political prisoners and their families, helping with medical costs for ailing children, and sending food and clothing to aid Ukrainians in Poland and Brazil. In the last ten years Branches of our organization donated half a million dol lars for the welfare program. Branch 17 in Miami, Florida was instrumental in the formation of the Eva Stashkiw Scholarship Fund, which from 1982 has granted scholarship from $ 500 to $ 3,000. The Lesia and Petro Kowaliw Fund is continuing to grant prizes for literary works and scholarly monographs in the field of history. To commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Ukrainian woman’s movement, UNWLA reprinted “The First Garland” and sent it or libraries in the Ukraine, to Soviet satellite countries, to libraries in Europe and America. In 1982 UNWLA sponsored a conference entitled “The Ukrainian Woman in Two Worlds” aimed at the younger generations of Ukrainian women, in order to elicit their participation in active Ukrainian community life. A conference with a similar goal is planned for 1986. UNWLA continued its active association with Amer ican and international women’s organizations. Our repre sentatives took part in the world conference in Mexico City in 1975 during the International Women’s Year, in the International Council of Women in Vancouver in 1976, in the International Tribunal “Crime Against Wo men” in Brussels in 1976, in the National Women’s Con ference in Houston, Texas in 1977, in the meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Council of Women in Oslo in 1978, in the World Conference — Decade for Women in Copenhagen in 1980, in the 1975, ’76, ’78, and ’80 conventions of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. The National Council of Women in the United States is an apolitical federation of all kinds of women’s organ izations — professional, educational and welfare in nature, which has as its aim the promotion of women in the social, economic, cultural and educational structure of society. The organizations which belong to the NCW, collectively boast of about 18 million members. The organization formed in 1888, initiated the founding of the International Council of Women which has as members National Councils of many countires on all continents. Olena Lototsky formed an association with the NCW in the 30’s and our organization became a member in 1952. Since that time every president of the UNWLA is a member of the NCW Board, and representatives of the UNWLA take part in the congresses of the International Council of Women. In the last decade, several members of the National board of UNWLA became members of the executive board of the NCW: K. Smorodsky (1976-1978); I. Rozan- kowsky (1982-1984); M. Bohachevsky-Chomiak (1984- 1986). Iryna Kurovytskyj is a member of the organiza tion’s International Hospitality Committee which orga nizes programs for the personnel of the United Nations wives of diplomats and representatives of foreign coun tries. In the future, we plan to expand this important association with American and international women’s organizations. The above listed projects and achievements give an overview of the program which characterizes the work of UNWLA in the last decade. It is not important today that our activities be labeled as part of the women’s movement. In the last 60 years UNWLA has labored for the good of the Ukrainian nation and our community and that realization gives us great satisfaction. Unrelent- lessly, our members have applied themselves to cultu ral, educational and welfare endeavors, as well as main taining associations with Ukrainian, American and inter national organizations. I am positive that the UNWLA will endure for many years to come, that its useful work will continue to be bestowed as a priceless heritage upon the future generations. IWANNA ROZANKOWSKY 28 ’’НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ТРАВЕНЬ 1985 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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