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UNWLA'S INTERNATIONAL CONTEST "NATURE AND US" BOOK Forward by ANNA KRAWCZUK, President "The Earth has not marry children. The Earth has but One Child — which is All of Us. We are all children of the Earth. We are all Children of God and we are all One on the Planet. Let us pray for the Earth. It is absolutely necessary to work together to protect the Planet. We see the World and the many hands that are sustaining the World. The World is like a ship. Let us be the stewards of the Ship. The whole World is One. We are all part of the World. God is helping all of us — and our Message should be beyond this room because God has made this possible..." Maya Traditional Spiritual Elders, United Nations Statement, November 1993. (Source: N.L. Thomas, The People's Paths home pagej. On February 26, 1971, Secretary General U Thant signed an Earth Day Proclamation for the celebration of Earth Day on March 21, 1971, the vernal equinox, on the first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. A message was issued in connection with the observance of Earth Day and at a private ceremony at United Nations Headquarters, the Peace Bell was rung. The ceremony was at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 21, 1971 (1900GMT), the hour of the signing of the United Nations Charter in San Francisco on June 26, 1945. It was in San Francisco's City Hall that the Earth Day proposal was approved in October 1969. The emphasis in the proclamation was on ensuring that the delicate balances of nature, essential for world survival, be a global effect. The People Proclamation was signed by Judith Hollister, Luther Evans, Estelle Feldman (Ireland), David R. Brower, Arvid Pardo (Malta), Margaret Mead, Eugene McCarthy, John Gardner, Mike Gravel, Hugh Scott, Buzz Aldrin, S. Ol. Adebo (Nigeria), U Thant (Ceylon), Maurice Strong (Canada), Y. Fukushima (Japan), Rene J. Dubois, Lubos Kohoutek (Czechoslovakia), Buckminster Fuller, Mark Hatfield. From 1990-1996, signatures were added: John Denver, Robert Muller (France), Edward Abramson, Isaac Asimov, Aly Tymour (Egypt), Anatoly N. Berezovoi (Russia), Cynthia Lannon (UK), Stan Lundine, David Dinkins, Oscar Arias (Costa Rica), Audrey McLaughlin (Canada), George Fernandes (India), Carlos Salinas (Mexico), Yasir Arafat (Palestine), Yehudi Menuhin. Each signer of this People Proclamation agreed "to seek to help change Man's terrible course toward catastrophe ... to provide an opportunity for the children of the disinherited poor to obtain their rightful inheritance in the Earth, and to observe Earth Day with reflection and actions that encourage a new respect for Earth ... in a global Earth Hour -- a silent hour for peace ..." Each year since that time, Earth Day Peace Bell Ceremonies at the United Nations (March 20-21) have brought together leaders of East and West in a common goal -- to think and act as trustees of Earth. In 1998 Earth Day was on Friday, March 20 -- Equinox, Nature's day all over the world. As a new year begins in ancient China, England, Persia, Egypt, North and South America at the moment of Equinox, the Sun is setting at the South Pole and rising at the North Pole. It is on this day that the winners of the UNWLA, Inc. International Contest "Nature and Us" were announced, thus giving our organization an opportunity to participate in and celebrate Earth Day with the world. Like the 1994 Contest "The Year of the Family 1994", "Nature and Us" was the brainchild of UNWLA Vice President Olha Trytyak, who also volunteered to administer the same. And again, it was a big success with the participation of 693 young people, ranging in age from 7-16, from the USA, Canada, Brazil, England, Slovakia, Yugoslavia. More than half of them were from Ukraine. I encourage our readers to peruse this book carefully and learn from the children, for theirs is unadulterated wisdom. All their senses are pure — they see the beauty of nature and the ugliness of its destruction, they hear the birds singing, and they also feel the dead silence, they smell the flowers and they smell the fires, they taste the water and they see and feel pollution, and they know what is good and they realize what is bad in their immediate environment. They understand that prevention and protection of Mother Earth is mandatory for their own survival and that of future generations. From the entries submitted, it is clear that none of them want to see or live through another tragic nuclear disaster similar to the one in Chomobyl, Ukraine, on April 26, 1986. We believe that they will become the keepers and protectors of our Planet Earth. Their children will be educated to love and cherish God's greatest gift to all mankind — The Earth. On behalf of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America, Inc., I thank all of our sponsors, organizations, school teachers, judges, and everyone who in any way added to the success of this contest. We know that without your support, this would not have been possible. Most of all, we are grateful to the participants from all parts of the globe for the drawings and essays that taught us all about the global environmental pollution - and about solutions to eliminate it. I congratulate Olha Trytyak for another job very well done. We are very proud of you, Olha, as you are proud of the young participants in the UNWLA Contest "Nature and Us". 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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