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8 WWW.UNWLA.ORG “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, КВІТЕНЬ 2017 Maria Polanskyj (2002–2015) "Ukrainian youth—the future of Ukraine" At the UNWLA convention in 2002, Maria Polanskyj was elected to the National Board as Scholarship Chair, a position that included overseeing and implementing the UNWLA Scholarship/Student Sponsorship Program. Mrs. Polanskyj directed the Program until her passing on December 4, 2015. All members of the UNWLA Scholarship Program Standing Committee agreed to work as a team to complete her term under the guidance of Honorary President Anna Krawczuk until the next UNWLA convention in May 2017. Having served in the committees of her predecessors, Maria Polanskyj was very familiar with the scope of the activities of the Scholarship Program and the need for funds for this purpose. Although working full-time, Maria Polanskyj spent evenings on her home computer fundraising and seeking out sponsors and donors. She signed up over 400 benefactors. In 2003 and in 2008 Maria Polanskyj was a member of the UNWLA delegation at the World Congress of Ukrainians Congresses. This provided her with an opportunity to meet with the leadership of Soyuz Ukrayinok of Ukraine (SUU) and with scholarship recipients in Kyiv. Trips to Lviv and meetings with members of SUU and with Iryna Kravchuk, Tamara Melnyk, and Father Stepan Sus in Kyiv, as well as with students recommended by them, reinforced her conviction of the importance of the Scholarship Program. There was also a trip to Przemysl, Poland, with a UNWLA delegation led by President Marianna Zajac and UNWLA Communications/Media Secretary Zorianna Haftkowycz to the annual meeting of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations in 2010. Meetings with former scholarship recipients, including with History professor Bohdan Huk, further underscored the importance of our activities aimed at enabling Ukrainian youth, in various countries, to obtain an education and a profession. She wholeheartedly believed that the future of Ukraine depends on them and she was not wrong! Historical events that started in 2014 in Kyiv, the annexation of Crimea by Russia, and the war that continues in Eastern Ukraine lay heavily on her heart. Support for the UNWLA Scholarship Program by the broad Ukrainian community was evidenced by generous donations. Maria was very grateful for their understanding and support. _____________________________________ From the Author The organizers of the UNWLA Scholarship Program are immeasurably grateful to all benefactors for their trust in us and in the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, which made possible the support of students of Ukrainian descent in the diaspora and also in Ukraine starting in 1989. Your support and sponsorship led to great successes among Ukrainian population centers outside the borders of Ukraine, particularly among the clergy in Brazil where today's spiritual leaders, metropolitans, and bishops are former scholarship students. Many priests from Brazil now serve in churches of the Ukrainian diaspora, including the United States. Many of the students the Scholarship Program has assisted chose to pursue studies in various branches of Ukrainian history, literature, art, pedagogy, ethnography, music, electronics, and so on (see the 7th report booklet). A major influence in their choices was having mothers who were able to pass on their cultural heritage to their children. We thank leaders and members of Soyuz Ukrainok of Ukraine for their cooperation and for the establishment of a Scholarship Commission in the Executive Board of SUU. This made our work notably easier and enabled shared responsibility for coordination and execution of our joint project in Ukraine. We thank Iryna Kravchuk, and Oryna Sokulska who, with great dedication, take care of all matters and responsibility for "their" students. We thank Tamara Melnyk and Larysa Kobelyanska, who understand the needs of students from impoverished families outside of Kyiv and recommend them for scholarships. And we cannot forget the contributions of the late Alla Debeliuk and Claudia Kobelyanska whose belief in the youth of Ukraine has been rewarded by the impressive successes of their successors! We must also thank the catechists of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from the Institute of St. Olga in Brazil, led by Filomena Procek, for their dedicated religious and pedagogical efforts since 1944. We are also grateful to Meroslawa Krevei, Olga Korczagin, and Elvira Lozovei who worked wholeheartedly with members of the UNWLA Scholarship Program. And let us also acknowledge the men who have been part
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