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5 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ • Липень-Cерпень 2022 Covid-19 in Ukraine. The Oxygen for Life campaign raised over $30,000 in one month. • In January, our national initiatives were released as our first-ever Calendar of Engagement. The first fundraising campaign in that series was for Pediatric Burn Victims. • Chairs of Standing Committees began regular monthly meetings with their counterparts from the Regional Councils and Branches-at-Large level. Even Members-at-Large were engaged in committee work. • A process for applying for grants from founda - tions and agencies was initiated. • A Financial Committee was created as per our by- laws. My tenure as president began with interviews with each member of the Executive Committee and the Chairs of Standing Committees. This was followed by numerous discussions with Chairs and Executive members as we scoped out our plans for the coming three years. In 2021, in-person participation in the New Haven Branch anniversary celebration, the Phil - adelphia Regional Council annual meeting, a Branch 137 fashion show fundraiser, a Branch 98 Christmas in October fundraiser, and a NY Regional Council Christmas event signaled a promising start. FEBRUARY 24, 2022: A TURNING POINT Then russia escalated its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, and the trajectory of our work changed dramatically. From the very outset, our focus was on fundraising for humanitarian support to Ukraine, as well as advocacy with elected officials and oth - er communities. Weekly meetings that were open to the entire organization took place for the first six weeks: emergency response teams were created, briefings on the humanitarian situation were pro - vided. As of this writing, more than $2 million has been raised for aid to Ukraine. Of this funding, the largest proportion was earmarked for direct aid to Ukraini - an hospitals for the purchase of specialized medical equipment (external fixators and wound vacs). Ad - ditional funding was sent to partner non-govern - mental organizations (NGOs) in Ukraine, such as AICM, a trusted Kyiv-based NGO and one of the first organizations delivering targeted aid to hard-hit re - gions. Thanks to the UNWLA and other international donors, AICM Ukraine has the largest humanitarian multi-platform covering the north, center, and east of the country. Such support enables them to help 75,000 people per week. We also partnered with the New Jersey Hospital Association, which, together with its member hospitals, enabled us to send tons of medical aid to Ukraine. Funds were sent to help evacuate Otchyi Dim orphans from Pokrovsk to Germany. And with the help of a group of seniors residing in the Monte - rey Pointe community in Palm Beach Gardens, Flor - ida, we were able to send funding to the Mother of God’s Relentless Help Parish in Ivano-Frankivsk so that they could provide nutritional meals for or - phans (among them many infants) who had been evacuated from Kharkiv. Since the beginning of the full-scale russian inva - sion of Ukraine, our Advocacy Team has rallied our community to advocate for more weapons and aid to Ukraine, to gather support for a Lend-Lease Bill, and to declare russia a State Sponsor of Terrorism. Meanwhile, it tracked companies still operating in russia and looked for sources of misinformation in the media. Our petition to ban russian media pack - ages from U.S. cable providers resulted in more than 60,000 signatures. Our Advocacy Team – now a rec - ognized UNWLA Standing Committee – continues to develop the Sister Cities program to match Ukrainian cities with American counterparts. Supporters and members of the UNWLA have rallied to organize a multitude of cultural fundraising events, including benefit concerts, pop-up fairs, exhibitions, and more. While we are unable to give a personal shout-out to every one of them, this is an opportunity to applaud everyone who advocated, raised funds, and shared our beautiful culture with the world. May marked the completion of a significant UNWLA undertaking – the digitization of the Ga - reth Jones papers, now available to the general public. A UNWLA representative was in Wales for the celebratory event in memory of Gareth Jones, the Welsh journalist who accurately reported the Holodomor and kept diaries while reporting on Ukraine. The Gareth Jones papers were discovered years after his death, and the UNWLA was the pri - mary sponsor of their digitization. The digital col - lection of his documents is now available on the website of the National Library of Wales. Huge thanks to our trusted partners, MEEST USA, The Paul Chester Children’s Hope Foundation, TOE - TAL Podiatry in NY, Stryker, and Genadyne; to our Regional Councils, branches, and Members-at-Large; and to the many other amazing organizations, in - dividuals, and corporate donors, too numerous to name in this report, who have collaborated with the UNWLA in this extraordinary time in the life of our homeland. A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS Beginning with this issue of Our Life , you will see that the words "russia" and "russian" are written in lowercase. This is not an error. The editors, with the support of the magazine's Editorial Board, have adopted this orthography in response to russia's war on Ukraine and the individuals who participate in the genocidal activities of that terrorist state. ВІД РЕДАКЦІЇ Якщо ви бачите у наших публікаціях власні назви, написані з малої букви – це не помилка, а позиція автора/ редакції щодо дій держави-терориста й окремих людей, які підтримали повномасштабне вторгнення в Україну.
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