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UNWLA CELEBRATES 35™ ANNIVERSARY OF SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM Mission Statement - Enhance and create opportunities through education and preserve Ukrainian cultural heritage within and outside o f the United States o f America. As we celebrate the 35th Anniversary of our continuous student assistance, we need to underscore the importance of cooperation between UNWLA membership and the generosity of hundreds of sponsors and benefactors, whose support of the UNWLA Scholarship Program enables us to award scholarships to deserving needy pupils and students in South America, Europe and the USA. From 1967 to 2001, the UNWLA Scholarship Program awarded over 16,000 scholarships totaling 3,133,211.45 US Dollars. Hundreds of students completed middle schools and high schools, and nearly 900 became professionals. Some former scholarship recipients became sponsors themselves, others are religious and civic leaders in their own countries. Among these are Miroslava Krevei and Olga Korczagin, former Directors of the Institute of Catechists of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; Bishop Jeremias Ferens of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Curitiba, Brazil; Bohdan Huk, editor of Nashe Slovo in Poland and numerous others. Nadia Kerecuk of Brazil (at London Univer sity), Myroslaw Sycz (at Warsaw University in Poland) and Lidia Stefanowska of Poland (at Harvard University) received their doctoral degrees in Ukrainian Studies with the help of their respective sponsors. One of the most important achievements of Ukrainian Brazilians is the fact that since 1991, studying Ukrainian as a second language is mandatory in public schools in the states of Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio de Zul. This achievement is unpre cedented and unique in the Ukrainian Diaspora. The majority population in these states are ethnic Ukrainians who settled there over one hundred and ten years ago. UNWLA Scholarship Program alumna, M. Magdalena Lozovei is the director of a federal program whose main responsibility is the implemen by Luba Bilowchtchuk UNWLA Scholarship Program Chair tation of the Ukrainian language as a second language in grades 5-12. She also founded the Association of Ukrainian Language Teachers, most of whom are university graduates and former scholarship recipients of our program. Ukrainian Brazilians form a UNWLA Scholarship Alumni Association. The success of Ukrainians in Brazil is very evident. Their seminaries have graduated and ordained hundreds of Ukrainian Catholic priests who are serving worldwide, most of whom had sponsors through our program over the last 35 years. Schools run by the Catechists of SHJ, nuns of Immaculate Heart of Mary, St. Anna, and Sisters of St. Basil, have given women the opportunity to pursue professions in a country where 35 years ago mandatory schooling was only to the 8th grade. The majority have become teachers, while others are nurses, doctors, social workers, at torneys or work in numerous other vocations. In due time they will be self sufficient. But in the meantime there is still a great need for scholarship assistance where the churches are strong, seminaries and boarding schools are filled with fifth generation of Ukrainian Brazilians who strive to cultivate Ukrainian cultural and religious heritage. One idea to strengthen the scholarship program in Brazil was to make scholarship beneficiaries more active in the program through an organization of their own. In August 2000, UNWLA president Iryna Kurowycky, M. Orysia Jacus, and Luba Bilowchtchuk visited Ukrainian Brazilian communities, schools, seminaries and colonies. They were met at the airport by former UNWLA scholarship recipient Bishop Jeremias Ferens and other religious and lay leaders of Ukrainian communities. With the approval of Ukrainian Brazilian leadership, including Ukrainian Catholic Bishop Efraim D. Krevey, Luba's proposal to establish the UNWLA Scholarship Alumni As sociation in Brazil was accepted. Olga Korczagin, former Director of Colegio Santa Olga, Institute of the Catechists of the Sacred Heart and the very first university graduate of our program in 1973, agreed to head this important organization.
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