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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, Ч ЕРВЕНЬ 20 19 WWW. UNWLA .ORG 13 On November 22, 2004, by resolution 59/26, the UN General Assembly declared Ma y 8 – 9 as a time of remembrance and reconciliation and invited all Member States, organizations of the United Na- tions system, non - governmental organizations and individuals to observe these days annually to pay tribute to the victims of the Second World War . A s explained on the United Nations web - site , “The Assembly stressed that this historic event established the conditions for the creation of the United Nations, designed to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, and called upon the Member St ates of the United Nations to unite their efforts in dealing with new challenges and threats, with the United Nations playing a cen- tral role, and to make every effort to settle all dis- putes by peaceful means in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations and in such a manner that international peace and security are not endangered.” The outgoing President of Ukraine , Petro Poroshenko, noted on May 8th that during these commemorati ve days, Ukraine’s desire for peace in this ongoing time of its struggle against Russia is paramount. He stressed that the memory of the many victims of the S econd W orld War , the t hou- sands of destroyed cities and tens of thousands of burned vill ages , once again warn s the world of the potential danger of a repe tition of this catastroph ic chapter in history . May 9 is celebrated in Ukraine as the day of victory over Nazism in WWII ( 1939 – 1945 ) . On this day, President Po- roshenko, Prime Minister Groys man, minist ers and the heads of churches took part in a ceremony honoring the memory of victims on the occasion of the 74 th anniversary of the end of WWII . T he official slogan of these commemorative events is “ 1939 - 1945. Let us r emember. Let us conquer , " a nd t he symb ol of the se Memorial Day s (since 2014) is the poppy . During this same week in May , messages of thanks started coming into our UNWLA mailbox — thank you notes from the persons on the ground in Ukraine who oversaw our Easter 2019 “Babusi ” ex- tensive outreach in Ukraine. This year, the UN- WLA sent Easter greetings to 519 elderly women in need across all oblasts of Ukraine. These women are members of the All - Ukrainian Society of Polit- ical Prisoners and the Repressed , many of whom are members of the Ukrainian Wome n’s League of Ukraine. Drs. Mariya Furtak and Vasyl Pazyniak, with the dedicated assistance of Oryna Sokul’ska (President of the Society and Vice President of the Ukrainian Women’s League and, as such, the coor- dinator of our UNWLA Scho lar ship Program in Uk raine) tirelessly worked to choose the most needy of the more than 3,000 persons listed and to present each of those selected with UNWLA’s per- sonal greeting (see p age 2 ) along with a small fi- nancial gift to each recipient. Ten thousa nd dollars was donate d toward this year’s Easter Babusi Pro- ject. The All - Ukrai nian Society of Political Prisoners and Repressed Persons is a community organization that was formed on June 3, 1989, when about 100 people who had been repressed and deprived of their liberty (in prisons, concen- tration camps, exile) for their political, religious and national beliefs, gathered in Lviv Square in Kyiv . The mission of the Society today is to combine all its members’ efforts and to use all of the experience of its membership with the goal of establishing and building a self - governing, demo - cratic Ukrainian state, as well as to provid e material assistance to the members of the Society. The organization has chapters in most o blasts of Ukraine. I am gratified to share with our readers a few of the responses we have received. Ten women from the village of Bobrove, Luhansk Oblast, which is located in the red zone on the contact line of the temporarily occupied zone, received Easter greet- ings and financial aid from the UNWLA Babusi Fund , an arm of the Social Welfare program . ( Please see pictures on pages 2 - 3 . ) Twenty elderly women from Dnipro were the recipients of this year’s Easter effort. The comprehensive and detailed reports and recipients’ signatures were emailed to the UN- WLA by the lo cal p resident of the Society, Ivan Dremliuha. ( Please see picture and biography of one of the babusi from Dnipro on page 3 . Also please read the thank you from the Society’s Rivne chapter on page 3 ). It is very touching to look into the photographed eyes o f the se brave and proud women who so graciously acknowledge the fact that Ukrainian women in the USA have made the effort to find them and touch their lives with a ges- ture of kindness. We are those women! Thank you for your support of the UNWLA “Babusi Fun d!”
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