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10 WWW.UNWLA.ORG “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЧЕРВЕНЬ 2017 Greeting of UNWLA President Marianna Zajac to the XXXI UNWLA Convention My warm and sincere greetings to our Honorary UNWLA Presidents, Anna Krawczuk and Iryna Kurowyckyj! I feel very fortunate to have both of these distinguished UNWLA leaders with us today as they continue to add their wisdom and knowledge and experiences to the life of our organ- ization. Thank you for joining us. I would also like to welcome our esteemed guests from Ukraine, from Brazil, and from Canada. Since our last convention in New York in 2014, our organization has celebrated its 90 th an- niversary—90 years of dedication to the diaspora through cultural, educational, and charitable pro- jects, 90 years of aid and moral support to Ukrain- ians in Ukraine, 90 years of defending the princi- ple of human rights, the very principle on which the country we call home, the United States of America, is built! It is precisely this principle that is being defended by the soldiers and volunteers in eastern Ukraine today—the right for a free and democratic Ukraine, without the constant uneasi- ness of having its neighbor interfering in the dem- ocratic process and imposing chaos and danger into the lives of the citizens of the entire country. May I please request that we all stand for a mo- ment of silence for the more than 10,000 Ukraini- ans who have given their lives in this senseless war? Please remain standing, for as we begin our XXXI convention, I ask that we also pray for and remember our beloved UNWLA Honorary Members and the UNWLA members who have passed away since our previous convention. May the memory of their kind hearts and commitment to our organization inspire us to move forward in the knowledge that we are continuing their work. Thank you. Please allow me to welcome each and every delegate present here today. It is you, my dear la- dies, who are the foundation on which our organi- zation is built. Thank you as well to our guests for joining us this weekend to take an active part in this, the XXXI UNWLA Convention. We gather here in the warm and beautiful surroundings of Florida this weekend in order to proudly assess where we’ve been and what we’ve accomplished over these past three years, but just as importantly, to pave the road for the future. Together we have some core issues to dis- cuss and address and decisions to make, because I truly believe we and the UNWLA find ourselves at a crossroads, crossroads which have historically been faced by our organization in previous years and decades, and these are twofold: the future goals we set for ourselves through our target pro- jects and the focus on our future membership re- cruitment. We must be pragmatic while, at the same time, adhering fiercely to our mission and ideals. The UNWLA’s focus since 2014, and spe- cifically since that afternoon on Sunday May 25, 2014, when we cried together as we listened to two of our UNWLA members perform the haunting song “Plyve Kacha” and only moments later were informed via a phone call from Ukraine that candi- date Petro Poroshenko had won the presidential election. We were all hopeful that this was the first step on the path to a brighther and easier life for our fellow Ukrainians. But this was not to be. Soon after the election results were announced, we, along with all diaspora organizations, were placed in a familiar position, as has happened repeatedly throughout our history: the position of informing our government officials and the average American citizen of the situation in Ukraine, of the aggres- sion Ukraine faced from Russia, of the lost lives, of the wounded soldiers, of the plight of the soldiers’ families, of the hundreds of thousands of displaced lives. Without a doubt, the focus of our work over the past three years, has been helping those affected by the revolution of dignity and the ensu- ing war in eastern Ukraine. Besides the major pro- jects initiated by the UNWLA Social Welfare Chair and the UNWLA National Board through the War Victims’ Fund or the Adopt a Family initiative, about which you have read in my monthly column in Our Life , each UNWLA branch has, in its own way, dedicated itself to this effort. Our effective- ness of the recent past underscore the current con- vention’s motto: OUR MEMBERSHIP IS OUR STRENGTH! The UNWLA’s greatest single initiative since 2014 has been the funding of Prostir Nadii , a trauma treatment center, a center within the Men- tal Health Institute of the Ukrainian Catholic Uni-
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