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what you do in your real life job. Everything is a po tential." The final panelist was Dr. Iwanna Ratycz, member of the UNWLA Executive Committee, who focused on the mature woman and the realities facing elderly women. She began by citing the myth of the Golden Years — a myth that includes well-established children living on their own, a move to Florida, and time for the two of us. The reality, she pointed out, is almost invariably different. She cited health concerns, the growing number of women confronting old age alone, and concerns about financial security. Dr. Ra tycz then discussed practical inventions that can im prove the quality of life for elderly women and practi cal recommendations for getting the most out of life by becoming familiar with available services, assis tance, and support programs and agencies. She strongly recommended continued physical activity, having a purpose, and active participation in commu nity activities. Wrapping up the presentations, Mrs. Zachar- czuk thanked the presenters and addressed questions and comments from the audience. MOTHERHOOD by Martha Bohachevsky Chomiak Almost forty years on American campuses has accustomed me to all sights, so it is difficult for me to be surprised by what I see. Rarely do I do a double take. But there still are pictures that shock, that stay with you long after the event. George Washington campus is a city campus, private and not cheap and in the nation's capital but nevertheless a city campus. There are the usual city types, panhandlers, the temporarily sightless, genu inely disabled who have proprietary claims to a par ticular comer, the singers, musicians, the woman who has been needing a dollar to get home for the last dec ade, the white kids trying to jive, the blacks fitting into the white corporate establishment, the old ladies who held on to their houses despite the expansion of the campus. Nothing unusual. And yet — I was passed by a very determined double wheelchair, one on the wheels of the other, go ing quickly and weaving between the river of pedestri ans disgorged by the subway. A tandem wheelchair? As it stopped at the light, I saw that the first convey ance was an electric wheelchair. An older woman ran it, her eyes pointedly fixed ahead, her head draped in a Central Asian kerchief, her face a study in concentra tion on the goal. Behind her, holding on with one hand to the pocket of the electric wheelchair, was a young woman, also kerchiefed, but more relaxed. Her hair was modestly hidden, as her Islamic faith de manded, but she need not have worried about her legs. She had none. They were an Afghan mother and daughter who could afford only one electric wheelchair to be able to afford the girl's education. The mother was trying to reconcile her traditional beliefs to a desire for learning for the young girl. Both disabled; neither a victim. Merely another example of a different Afghan mother. The year Ukraine was gradually emerging from the chrysalis of the USSR into Ukrainian state hood, the organization of Mothers of Soldiers, which was founded because the mothers could not find out the fate of sons conscripted into the Soviet army dur ing the Afghan war, staged a major women's demon stration that contributed to the disintegration of the Soviet Army. The Ukrainian Women's League, in its first tentative organizational stage, and the Women's Community organized the first joint demonstration to prove that Ukrainian mothers realize the importance of women's involvement in public affairs. The demon stration was held on March 8, 1990, the international women's day that became a type of Mother's Day in the USSR, subverting its original purpose of honoring revolutionary women. The Afghan mother reminded me of how motherhood goes beyond the sweetness of kindergar ten paintings and annual Mother's Day concerts. Sometimes motherhood needs determination and elec tricity. “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ТРАВЕНЬ 2000 13
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