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2 WWW.UNWLA.ORG “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, СІЧЕНЬ 2016 Since the very beginning of the Maidan two years ago, the UNWLA has been supporting first the students, then the soldiers, and now the wounded and their families through generous gifts of humanitarian aid and moral support. Since the time when UNWLA members first saw the excitement and hope in the eyes of the Maidan participants and then the shock and pain in those very same eyes, our Social Welfare Chair (first Iryna Rudyk and then Lidia Bilous) and her committee as well as our nationwide membership have been working tirelessly to help Ukraine in its internal and international struggle towards de- mocracy. However, the first official trip to Uk- raine of a National Board representative and the first working visit with various officials and part- ners in our quest to lighten the burden of our fel- low Ukrainians was in December of 2015. Please allow me to share the highlights of our December 3rd through December 13th trip to Kyiv and L’viv (President Marianna Zajac and Financial Secre- tary Vera Kushnir). December 3rd Visit to the main Military Clini- cal Hospital in Kyiv together with Dr. Maria Furtak (UNWLA representative in Ukraine in the areas of Humanitarian Aid and Social Welfare). We visited about a dozen wounded soldiers, mostly volun- teers, and their families. We also met with the “Volunteers’ Hundred” organization. Meeting with Dr. Ludmilla Porokhniak- Hanovska, President of the National Council of Women of Ukraine, and some of her membership as well as with Maria Savchenko, mother of im- prisoned Nadia Savchenko. December 4th We met with Dr. Ulana Suprun, Director of Humanitarian Initiatives for the World Congress in Ukraine to discuss possible project partnership. We had meetings in the Parliamentary of- fices with Iehor Soboliev, Chair of the Committee on Preventing and Fighting Corruption; Mariia Ionova, Deputy Chair of the Committee on Euro- pean Integration; and Iryna Lutsenko, member of the Committee on Human Rights. These visits gave us an idea about the general political land- scape in Ukraine. It was clear that conducting ma- jor political reforms is still an uphill battle. December 5th-6th Visit to Saints Peter & Paul Church in L’viv and Rev. Fr. Stepan Sus, Director of the Center for Military Chaplaincy, who has also helped establish chaplaincy programs for children living in orphanages. On Sunday, De- cember 6th, the “National Armed Forces Day” was celebrated at the Church with many dignitaries in attendance. It was very rewarding that both two-star General Pavlo Tkaczuk and Governor Synyutka of L’vivshchyna acknowledged the many contribu- tions of the UNWLA during this trying time in Ukraine. December 7th Visit to L’viv Military Hospital and distribution of monetary aid to the most needy wounded, especially those with spinal cord injuries. We met with the U.S. doctors and nurses of the International Shriners Outreach Mission as well as with their Ukrainian partners on this first day of the mission. (Main reason for our trip to Ukraine). The mission was scheduled for Dec. 7- 12 as the doctors prepared to examine 140 chil- dren (burn victims) at the L’viv Children’s Re- gional Clinical Hospital (Okhmadyt) and prepared to select pediatric patients for surgery. A very well attended press conference was held on this open- ing day of the Clinic. (The UNWLA was instru- mental in this historic medical mission as it fund- ed the doctors’ flights and stay in Ukraine as well the transport of needed medical supplies before- hand.) This mission was most successful as 37 children were operated on (entirely without charge to the parents) and 17 were evaluated to be brought to Shriners in Boston. The Ukrainian doctors worked side by side with the Americans and the cooperation was very rewarding. The UNWLA received much acknowledgement for partnering with the doctors to make this historical mission possible. December 8th We participated in a Celebrato- ry Mass and receptions on the occasion of the Ukrainian Catholic University’s School of Theolo- gy receiving accreditation by the Vatican. Meeting with Natalia Klymovska, UCU Vice Rector for Development and Communica- tions, in order to discuss possible UNWLA contri- bution to the development of rehabilitation pro- grams at UCU. Rehabilitation (physical and psy- chological) is a pressing need at this particular time.
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