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8 WWW.UNWLA.ORG “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ВЕРЕСЕНЬ 2018 The summer of 2018 offered the UNWLA several opportunities to share its fundamental be- lief that the support of the edu cation of Ukrainian youth is one of the core components of its mission. As I stated in the booklet published in celebration of the golden anniversary of the UNWLA Scholar- ship Program, “the fundamental beliefs that edu- cation is key to a strong and successfu l society and that the youth is the future of that society form the very foundation of the UNWLA Scholarship/Chil- dren - Student Sponsor ship Program.” This pro- gram brilliantly de monstrates the UNWLA’s com- mitment to education. For the past several years, th e UNWLA has sponsored children’s Christmas and summer camps administered by the Chaplaincy of the Lviv Eparchy and our long - term associate Fr. Stepan Sus. The “education” component of these bi - an- nual camps is not focused on book learning but ra- ther on inte rpersonal relationships. As in the past, the camps are divided into categories: those for children from the ATO zone, Donetsk Oblast, and those for orphans from what we in the United States know as foster homes. Together, the num - ber of children to be give n this opportunity during the summer of 2018 was approximately 700! Т he main goals of the project with the “ATO” children were to address the psychological effects of living in the war zones and to give them the chance to “breathe.” It was also a way to al low the counselors to address the children’s moral/spiritual growth and simply to teach them to understand how to “live.” The cities targeted were Kostiantynivka, Krasnohorivka, Torets’k, Hovodonetsk, and Myr- nohrad. The focus was also to show the children (ages 7 – 14) how to socialize, how to be a little more independent, how to come to the aid of their fellow campers — all of which would eventually re- sult in a positive outcome for the children’s moral and spiritual growth. The orphans from the foster homes are brought to camp with their foster par- ents and led onto a path of better understanding through planned group activities. This allows the children to feel more comfortable in their foster family milieu, to feel more secure in a family set- ting. Life lesso ns are the education in this case. Summer camp in Krasnohorivka, Donetsk Oblast, July 2018 This is the second year that the UNWLA has supplemented the expenses of seminarians (from the Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Odessa Epar- chies) at the Kyiv Three Holy Hie rarchs Spiritual Seminary. For the 2018 – 2019 academic year, there are 21 such seminarians whom we will help. In his appeal letter to the UNWLA, Rector Petro Zhuk states that our support is particularly important because it enables the education of effectiv e and dedicated priests who are preparing to serve in Ukrainian territories destroyed by war and suffer- ing. M. Furtak visiting Kyiv Three Holy Hierarchs Spiritual Seminary on the invitation of Rector Zhuk; meeting with its Educational Prefect Hierarch Innocent Voloshyn ( April 2018) ______________ Finally, I would like to share with readers about our very rewarding and exciting developing cooperation and partnership with the Shevchenko Scientific Society. In 2015 the Society initiated a special scholars hip program for talented Ukra in- ian university students (ages 17 to 22) who either lost a parent at the Maidan or in the war in Eastern Ukraine and/or are designated as displaced per- sons. In 2018 the Society formally announced this
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