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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, БЕРЕЗЕНЬ 2018 WWW.UNWLA.ORG 13 As the years went by, Mama’s charitable work expanded from helping poor people in Brazil to helping people living in our surrounding area and in Ukraine. In 2009, bolstered by a strong sup- port system within our church and parish, Mama founded The Charitable Program of St. John’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Newark. On a local level, Mama and her army of volunteers deliver homemade meals to elderly and infirm members of our community, bringing not only food but also a bit of warmth and companionship to those who are lonely. Several times a year, the volunteers do- nate food to the St. John’s Food Kitchen in down- town Newark, helping to feed the hungry in our im- mediate area. After Hurricane Sandy devastated homes in the surrounding area, The Charitable Program reached out to several Ukrainian families who had suffered great losses. Thanks to the generosity of many parish- ioners and supporters within the United States, as well as an army of volunteers in Ukraine, The Charitable Program has been able to provide finan- cial assistance to wounded Ukrainian soldiers, or- phans, sick and handicapped children, the elderly, and the homeless in Kyiv and Lviv. It has also pro- vided assistance to Eastern Ukrainian refugees who found themselves displaced within their own country. This past year, Program volunteers called upon parishioners to become Angels of Mercy and to help provide financial assistance to people living in extreme poverty in Ukraine. Last week, when my co-worker Jillian greeted me with her usual, “It’s Grati-Tuesday. What are you grateful for?” my response wasn’t the one I had prepared. Instead, I told her, “I am grate- ful that our children want to be like my Mama when they grow up.” Our older daughter, Maya, sees her grandmother as the ultimate role model. She wants to be a humanitarian, like Babusia, and recently took it upon herself to hold a coat drive at her school. Maya collected nearly 1,000 pounds of warm winter clothing and has shipped 22 boxes to the needy in Ukraine. Our younger daughter, Mika, sells crafts to her classmates and online, donating the proceeds to the American Cancer Society. Both of our daughters understand how fortunate they are to be living in this country, with a roof over their heads, food on their plates, and clothes on their backs. Each of them, in her own way, is an Angel of Mercy, continuing the legacy of compas- sion and generosity that we have all learned from my Mama. The author is a member of UNWLA Branch 134 in Whippany, N.J. You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Compassion is language the deaf can hear and the blind can see. — Mark Twain Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not. — Henry James Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. — Maya Angelou ______________________________________________________________________ Guidelines for Submitting Photographs to Our Life Renaming your photos . Please do not send photos named JPG126XYZ324 or something similar. ALL photos should be renamed and numbered, preferably in the sequence you would like them to appear in article. For example, #1 Branch 489, #2 Branch 489, #3 Branch 489, or some other system that makes it easy to identify what the photos are intended to illustrate and where they belong. Captions. Please type a caption for each photo and provide this information at end of your article. Num- ber each caption so that it corresponds with the photo it describes. Photo credits . Please give credit where credit is due and let us know name(s) of photographer(s).
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