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Nadia Jaworiw Since 2021 I was elected Scholarship Program Chair at the UNWLA Con - vention in June 2021. I could not run the program without the support of the UNWLA Scholarship Program Standing Commit - tee, the R.C. Scholarship Program Committee, our branches and Regional Councils, our trusted partners in Brazil and Ukraine, and the generosity of the program’s sponsors, benefactors, and donors. Running this 55-year-old program is a great responsibil - ity, and I appreciate the support I inherited. The Scholarship Program Standing Committee members run the program primarily from the Scholarship office in Matawan, NJ, where all the records reside. Tasks include working with our partners in Brazil and Ukraine, processing student documents, and all the activities associated with delivering stipends to stu - dents, sponsor notifications, compiling accounting data, paying bills, and providing information about the Scholarship Program to Our Life magazine. Committee members are listed in each issue on the Scholarships donation page. The R.C. Scholarship Program Committee was formed in Decem - ber 2021 to share information about the program with branch - es, to provide feedback and input from branches and Regional Councils to the Scholarship Chair, and to encourage branches to sponsor students and seek out new sponsors and donors for the program. The committee is composed of Scholarship Chair Na - dia Jaworiw, ex officio UNWLA President Natalie Pawlenko, and Regional Council Scholarship Chairs: Detroit – Nadia Purnell, Philadelphia – Daria Lissy, New York City – Olga Kuzmyn, New Jersey – Luba Bilowchtchuk, Ohio Regional Council President – Halyna Jarema, Chicago – Natalie Mycyk, Branches-at-Large – Maria Groll, Branches-at-Large Chair Co-Liaison – Iryna Cha - lupa, Members-at-Large Liaison – Olga Czerkas, and Scholarship Program Standing Committee member Halyna Lojko. In Brazil, we have been able to award scholarships to students without interruption. Due to russia’s invasion of Ukraine, schol - arship payments were put on hold. Working with our contacts in Ukraine, we were able to start awarding scholarships to stu - dents again in early April. We are heavily dependent on our trusted contacts in locating the students, and very grateful to them. As of August 29, we were notified which students had been found for 50% of the regions in Ukraine. We will continue this process until we have covered all possible regions. As we look forward to the next academic year, the UNWLA Scholarship/Children-Student Sponsorship Program will contin - ue to operate primarily in Ukraine and Brazil. Focus will be on both retaining existing and adding new sponsors and donors. Regional Councils, branches, and members are encouraged to continue including the public in their fundraising efforts for the program. God Bless Ukraine and our students! Maria Polanskyj 2002–2015 “Ukrainian youth – the future of Ukraine” At the UNWLA convention in 2002, Maria Po - lanskyj was elected to the National Board as Scholarship Chair. Having served on its com - mittees for many years, she was very familiar with the program’s scope of activities, but happy that former committee members M. Orysia Jacus, Luba Bilowchtchuk, Daria Nova - kivsky-Lissy, PhD, Anna Krawczuk, and Victo - ria Mischenko – all sponsors themselves – of - fered their services. She was also very proud that her three children and their spouses, as well as her godson, became sponsors. Although working professionally full-time, Maria spent evenings at home fundraising, signing up over 400 benefactors during her tenure. She spent at least one day every weekend at the UNWLA Scholarship Office in Matawan, NJ. In 2003 and 2008, Maria was part of the UNWLA delegation to the World Congress of Ukraini - ans in Kyiv, which gave her an opportunity to meet with the leadership of Soyuz Ukrainok of Ukraine (SUU) and with scholarship recipi - ents. In 2010, she was part of the delegation led by UNWLA President Marianna Zajac to Przemysl, Poland, for an annual meeting of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations. This gave her an opportunity to meet former students, now professionals, in Poland. Together with UNWLA delegate Zori - ana Haftkowycz, she also visited the cemetery in Zahochevie, Poland, where her father Viktor Osinski was laid to rest in 1940 when she was a baby. Maria became ill in late 2014 and passed on December 4, 2015. Services honoring her memory were held in New Jersey, Brazil, and Ukraine. Many UNWLA scholarship recip - ients attended the services in Lviv and Pru - dentopolis. Maria’s sister, Anna Krawczuk, volunteered to take over as head of the UNWLA Scholar - ship Program and continued to work with the members of the Scholarship Committee. Anna Krawczuk The 2022 UNWLA Scholarship Committee. Seated (l-r): Nadia Jaworiw, Anna Krawczuk, Natalie Pawlenko; standing (l-r): Natalia Honcharenko, Victoria Mischenko, Luba Bilowchtchuk; not present: Halyna Lojko, Zoriana Haftkowycz. Meeting with SUU leadership and UNWLA scholarship recipients in Kyiv in 2008. Seated third from left: Scholarship Chair Maria Polanskyj; behind her (l-r): Anna Krawczuk, Atena Pashkko, Alla Debeliuk. 11 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ • Грудень 2022
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