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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ВЕРЕСЕНЬ 200 8 10 The UNWLA looks ahead Last week’s front page carried a news story about the 28th convention of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, a venerable Ukraini an community organization founded back in 1925, that unites women of Ukrainian descent from throughout the United States. Now part of our library here at the newspapers of the Ukrainian National Association, i.e. The Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda, is the 408-page convention book released in conjunction with that conclave. Yes, we did say 408-page. Perusing the pages of this highly informative bilingual (Ukrainian- English) compilation, which contains a section dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor, reports of UNWLA officers, as well as the customary greetings from Ukrainian and American leaders, Ukrainian community institutions, organizations and individuals, one cannot help but be struck by both the volume and breadth of the UNWLA’s work. The UNWLA today unites Ukrainian women of all generations, Ukrainian-born and American- born, representatives of all immigrations, including the latest group to move to this country from Ukraine – the Fourth Wave. It is an organization with a proud past that is looking to the future to continue its work for the benefit of all Ukrainians. For decades, the UNWLA and its members served as the voice of women in Ukraine who could not speak for themselves. In 1933, for example, the UNWLA was most active in telling the world about the Great Famine then ravaging Ukraine. The organization’s national board convened a meeting of UNWLA branches and established the Emergency Relief Committee for Starving Ukrainians. That committee sent appeals to save Ukraine’s people to Presi dent Franklin D. Roosevelt and his activist wife, Eleanor, to relief agencies such as the International Red Cross, to members of the U.S. Congress, as well as the press. Today the UNWLA’s good work can be seen on both the national level and locally. The na tional board, branches and districts are extremely active, organizing and running myriad projects that cover various fields of endeavor — education, social welfare, ecology, health, culture, the arts, archives, etc. The organization’s very successful scholar ship program has helped thousands of young Ukrainians in various parts of the world get a higher education; its charitable contributions have helped flood victims in Ukraine’s Zakarpattia region and widows of miners killed in mining disasters in eastern Ukraine. It was the UNWLA that in 1976 founded The Ukrainian Museum, a landmark in New York City that brings Ukrainian art and culture to the attention of countless visitors to this world capital. The UNWLA maintains contacts and acts in concert with mainstr eam American and international women’s organizations (it was thanks to the UNWLA that the International Council of Women held its 2006 General Assembly in Kyiv); it maintains contacts with movers and shakers on the local, state and federal level, as well a s with Ukraine’s leaders. Notably, the UNWLA has managed to attract Ukrainian American women who live beyond our organized communities, inviting them to join the organization and play active roles as members-at-large who do not belong to a local branch. The UNWLA’s outgoing and newly elected presidents, respectively, Iryna Kurowyckyj and Marianna Zajac, have noted that the UNWLA, through its diverse projects and multifaceted activism, has something to offer all women who have a Ukrainian connection. As the organization approaches its 85th anniversary (which will be celebrated in 2010), its leadership seeks to attract new generations and groups of women who want to be a part of something greater than themselves and who want to make their town, their country, their people and their world a better place. Reprinted with permission from the June 29, 2008, issue of The Ukrainian Weekly . 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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