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12 WWW.UNWLA.ORG “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ГРУДЕНЬ 2016 Responding to an invitation to appear on Lvivska Oblasna Derzhavna Teleradikompaniya (Lviv’s television broadcasting company), I gave an interview on the evening of August 18 and shared information about our organization and the broad scope of its projects in Ukraine as well as in the United States . August 19. On August 19, 1944, the village of Pyriatyn (Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast) was sur- rounded by the NKVD; the underground volun- teers were executed, and the village was set on fire. No one survived. Drs. Vasyl Pazyniak (former member of Oblasna Rada and Verkhovna Rada) and Maria Furtak escorted us to this village for an annual memorial service. The local population of surrounding villages, dressed in their beautiful embroidered finery, streamed to the chapel and memorial built in memory of those murdered in 1944. Both Roksolana Misilo and I were asked to say a few words, and we offered our condolences and our gratitude to those who so love their home- land. With panakhyda attendees for Yuriy Lypa in the village of Buniv We also paid tribute to Yuriy Lypa, a poet, medical doctor, and Ukrainian patriot, who was apprehended by the NKVD o n August 19, 1944, and was subsequently tortured and murdered. Fr. Zeleniukh (who has been mentioned in my previ- ous columns in OL and has traveled with Dr. Fur- tak to many military hospitals) led a panakhyda at the cemetery in the village of Buniv where Lypa is buried with other members of the Ukrainian Insur- gent Army. After these moving events, we visited the parish church of Fr. Zeleniukh in the village of Kalynivka. The church was resplendent with beau- tiful, crisp rushnyky, embroidered by Fr. Zeleni- ukh himself! He truly is a blessed man and talented Ukrainian hero and patriot. August 20. The burn prevention campaign initi- ated by Dr. Fuzaylov of Doctors Collaborating to Help Children (DCtoHC) and executed in Lviv by Dr. Myroslava Detsyk and her team held the sec- ond in a series of community informational events. This event was held in Khmelnytsky Park and was funded by the UNWLA. The materials produced by the team in Lviv were of an extremely professional quality; interest was high, and follow-up events are planned. August 21–23. WFUWO (World Federation of Women’s Organizations) annual meeting at the Kozatskyj Hotel in central Kyiv. WFUWO com- prises 30 organizations in 20 countries on 4 conti- nents, and President Orysia Sushko presided over the reporting of the attending organizations. August 24. Ukrainian Independence Day. On the invitation of former member of Parliament Vasyl Pazyniak, we met with Volodymyr Yavorivsky, poet, writer, journalist and politician. August 25–26. UWC (Ukrainian World Con- gress) annual meeting held at the Taras Shev- chenko National University in Kyiv. As UNWLA President, I participated with acting Minister of Health, Dr. Ulana Suprun in a panel discussion on the diaspora’s social welfare projects. Dr. Suprun & Mari- anna Zajac discuss- ing “Humanitarian issues in support of Ukraine.” August 27 . Traveled in the early morning to Za- porizhia and were met by Fr. Andrij Bukhvak who escorted us to the Cemetery of the Unknown Sol- dier and who led a panakhyda in these soldiers’ memory; visited the Zaporizhia Military Hospital where we personally presented financial support to the wounded and also met with volunteers at a vol- unteer center near the train depot. Meeting face to face with the brave men who, in the face of serious injury, still maintain their patriotism and hope is very sobering. The volunteers are extremely dedi- cated and are indispensable to those soldiers leav-
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