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12 WWW.UNWLA.ORG “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, КВІТЕНЬ 2018 Remembering Chornobyl: Those Who Made a Difference by Anna Krawczuk, UNWLA Honorary President Oblast Children’s Specialized Hospital in Lviv. Left to right: Lidia Czernyk, Director Dr. O. Myndiuk. and Dr. A. Petrukh. The man in the photograph is Wolodymyr Hordynsky, PhD, from New Jersey, who trained oblast hospital lab technicians how to use the equipment donated by the UNWLA. In 1990, together with Nadia Matkiwsky of the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund (CCRF) and others, Lidia Czernyk, UNWLA National Social Welfare Standing Committee Chair, traveled to Ukraine. Their journey included a visit to Chorno- byl. This unforgettable trip was instrumental in de- termining and formalizing future activities that were undertaken to help the sick children im- pacted by the nuclear fallout who needed medical care. Lidia Czernyk’s visit prompted the UNWLA’s decision to purchase medical equipment for two hospitals and a Children’s Sanatorium Dzerelo in Truskavets. Four years later this plan was realized. Lidia focused her energy on fundraising, and UNWLA membership responded by organiz- ing fund raising nationwide. As a result, we were able to donate laboratory equipment, including blood analyzers, to the Oblast Children’s Special- ized Hospital in Lviv and, together with CCRF, the UNWLA sent an MRI to Kyiv Emergency Hospital where nuclear radiation victims had priority for examination, especially children from the Chorno- byl region. In 1994, Lidia Czernyk embarked on a sec- ond trip to Ukraine, a visit that included Kyiv, Chornobyl, and Lviv together with then UNWLA President Anna Krawczuk and CCRF members. It was during this trip that an MRI was delivered to Kyiv. UNWLA members received permission to visit Chornobyl for a limited time. It was enough time to meet with residents of Opachichi who had returned to their homes and to visit a children’s home nearby. Detailed information about these events was reported on the pages of Our Life and in UN- WLA Convention books (1993 and 1996). Our Cover Artist Yaroslava Surmach Mills was born in New York in 1925 to parents who were part of the first great immigration from Ukraine to the United States. Immersed in Ukrainian culture as a child, which was re- inforced by her family’s activism and proprietorship of Surma Book & Music Co. in New York City, she attended Cooper Union Art College and graduated with an art degree. She illustrated children’s magazines, then began working with reverse glass painting, creating works that were exhibited and often reproduced in greeting cards for which she became famous. Her work was widely published, including the 1964 edition of the Ukrainian folktale The Mitten , which she worked on with Alvin Tresselt. She was also the editor/art director for the children’s magazine Humpty Dumpty . Among her other works were stained glass windows she created for St. Demetrius Catholic Church in Toronto and the glass entrance doors of the New York Senate Building. The artist died in Denver, Colorado, in 2008. Her work is on exhibit at the Ukrainian Museum.
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