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16 OUR LIFE • August 2025 ДІЯЛЬНІСТЬ ВІДДІЛІВ І ЧЛЕНКИНЬ • BRANCH & MEMBER NEWS Branch 17 Holds Children Praying for Children Event On Sunday, June 8, Miami’s Branch 17 created a sacred space for children to come together in prayer, solidarity, and com - passion for children just like them in Ukraine who are affected so deeply by the ongoing war. For the event, spearheaded by branch president Patricia Krysa and in support of the UNWLA’s Return Ukraine’s Chil - dren initiative, the branch worked with decades-long partner the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church in Miami, with the church and hall serving as the ven - ue for the day’s prayer services and children’s activities. Rev. Andrij Romankiv, the church pastor, included special prayers within the Liturgy, and at its conclusion welcomed the children to step through the iconostas doors and pray with him at the altar as the rest of the congregation prayed from the pews and choir loft. He gave each child a keepsake prayer card created especially for Children Praying for Chil - dren. It was a lovely, spiritual, uplifting sight to see so many of them, holding candles and standing together, reading from the prayer card aloud and sending their prayers to children in Ukraine. Afterwards, a light lunch was served by branch members in the church hall, and a video entitled The Fight to Bring Ukraine’s Children Home was screened by technical advisor Oleksandr Veshtebey. Following the video, parents were giv - en a short advocacy primer on how to contact their elected representative to support stronger sanctions against russia, and restoration of funding to the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab and Return Ukraine’s Children. The children, meanwhile, took turns drawing inspirational pictures and writing short messages that will be delivered to an orphanage in Ukraine this summer. They also decorat - ed sugar cookies with icing and blue and yellow sprinkles as Ukrainian children’s songs played in the background. It was a typically hot south Florida June day, but that didn’t stop the children from eventually heading outside to draw Ukrainian flags, tryzubs, and flowers with sidewalk chalk, all the while sending thoughts of hope and happiness to their counterparts across the ocean from Lviv to Kyiv to Kharkiv to Odesa. In between drawings, they frolicked among bubbles being blown, each bubble representing hope that the stolen children of Ukraine will rejoin their families soon. Ice cream cones awaited when they returned indoors, and, little by little, families said their typical Ukrainian goodbyes. It was a successful, positive event that left everyone with a feeling of warmth, hope, and accomplishment. Hanya Maksymowich , Secretary, Branch 17, Miami, FL Solomia Miagka. Anya, Nadia, and Mila Wenglowskyj.
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