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the moral and financial support received from the UNWLA. Ms. Pliushch said that the “babusia” program is especially important as it allows the women of Soyuz Ukrainok Temopil to purchase medicine, food and even clothing for elderly women who have almost no means of supporting themselves. As a memento of our meeting and as a gesture of thanks to the UNWLA, she presented me with a cassette recording of the Soyuz Ukrainok Temopil Choir under the direction of Volodymyr Vemey. On August 19, 2001, while visiting Yalta, I met with Bohdanna Shevchuk, the president of Soyuz Ukrainok in Yalta and the director of the Ukrainian school in Yalta, the latest of the schools in Ukraine which have become a part of the UNWLA “Milk and Roll” program. I presented Ms. Shevchuk with money that will fund the program at the school and she explained how important the program was to the families in the area. “These people,” she said, “are very poor because of unemployment and generally bad economic conditions. When people learned that there will be a Milk and Roll program in the Ukrainian school, so many children were registered that there will be five first grade classes.” Ms. Shevchuk could not stress enough how important the program - she expressed a sincere hope that the UNWLA would continue to fund the program until the economy picks up. To underscore the level of poverty in the area, she showed me an advertisement from a local newspaper, which asked people to donate used children’s shoes and clothing. “There are many children,” she explained, “who will not be able to attend school this fall because they have nothing to wear.” In Yalta, I also met with Svitlana Kocherha, the director of the Yalta’s Museum of Lesya Ukrainka, and Maria Klevchuk, a Soyuz Ukrainok member from Chemivtsi. Ms. Klevchul was helping Ms. Kocherha with preparations for the opening of the museum, scheduled for August 24. I had a chance to visit the museum on August 20. It is located on the second floor of a charming old building in a very nice area of Yalta. From its balcony, you can see the Black Sea. It is said that Lesya Ukrainka lived here while visiting Yalta. In front of the museum is a beautiful monument of Lesya Ukrainka, sculpted by Halyna Kalchenko and erected in 1972 on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the poetess. Inside the museum I was able to view the hectic preparations for the opening. Ms. Kocherha took the time to show me the completed exhibits and di rected me to the place where embroidered “rushnyky” are to be displayed. The museum’s collection of embroidered “rushnyky” is to include a rushnyk which I brought to Yalta as a gift from the UNWLA. Ms. Kocherha shared with me her future plans. They include a trip to Prague where she will be working with newly discovered correspondence of Lesya Ukrainka. The UNWLA plans to publish the correspondence once it has been properly documented and organized. It was a great pleasure for me to meet with these Ukrainian women, to learn about their work and their circumstances. Grateful for the UNWLA’s moral and financial support, they return our faith in them by creating and pursuing worthy and important causes and projects. Lesya Ukrainka Museum in Yalta.
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