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LIDIA CZERNYK SOCIAL WELFARE CHAIR In reviewing the activities of the Social Welfare Committee of UNWLA based on the reports from the most recent elective period, it must be noted that the branches are positively inclined toward this segment of the UNWLA’s work. This, by no means is an indication that all branches approach the resolutions to social welfare problems in the same manner, but they do tend to balance each other, which in the end yields satisfacto ry results. The Social Welfare Committee of the UNWLA encompasses a wide range of con cerns. Individual departments are headed by the following members of the Committee: Olha Hnatyk, Irena Russnak, Nadia Oransky, Anna Rak and Anna Krawczuk from the Executive Board. Based on the reports of Branches and Regional Councils, which serve as the basis for the annual reports of the Chairman of the Social Welfare Committee of UNWLA to the World Council of Ukrainian Social Welfare (World Congress of Ukrainians) in Canada, it is apparent that UNWLA members are more eager each year to help the needy in Ukraine, especially children who are ill, the victims of Chornobyl, and the orphans. Social Welfare for the needy in the USA: Members of branches provide aid and support to the needy, particularly to fellow members and to the elderly in the areas where they live. They organize medically related infor mation sessions for the public, and run social service offices. However, the support that is required is not so much material, as moral, and in many cases what is necessary is information and a helping hand with everyday matters. Center of correspondence: This depart ment has been successfully operating for more than twenty years, coordinated by the President of the UNWLA, Anna Krawczuk. Through this initiative hundreds of people of various ages from the numerous Ukrainian settlements, have established contact with each other. Aid to Ukraine: In June 1994 the most important joint project of the UNWLA, the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund and Ge neral Electric Corp. — the acquisition of the MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) medical equipment for Ukraine — was realized. Valued at over $1 million, the equipment was pur chased for $350,000 through the efforts of Drs. Chrystyna Slywotsky and Ihor Sawchuk. The UNWLA contributed $200,000. The MRI was transported to Kyiv, Ukraine via an American military aircraft, where it was delivered to the Kyiv Clinical Center of Trauma and Emergency Medicine Hospital and its director, Dr. Hryhorij Roshchin. A press conference was held at Dover Air Force Base, the point of departure for the MRI. Representing the UNWLA National Board were Olha Trytyak and Luba Bilow- shchuk, as well as members of Branch 54 and its president, Maria Pazuniak. At the Borespil Airport in Kyiv, the point of arrival, a press conference was also held when the aircraft landed. Joining the representatives of the Ukrainian government, members of CCRF, doctors, members of the press, and guests, were UNWLA representatives Anna Krawczuk, Lidia Czernyk, Dr. Chrystyna Slywotzky, and Nadia Nynka, member of Branch 104. The equipment was then sent to the hospital and the following day an official presentation ceremony was held, witnessed by many guests and the hospital staff. While in Kyiv, UNWLA representatives visited various hospitals and kindergartens in the Chornobyl zone, in the villages of Ivankiv and Opachych, where several of the residents are members of “Soyuz Ukrainok” (Ukrainian National Women’s League of Ukraine). In Lviv the visitors were taken on a tour of the Regional Pediatric Hospital by its director Dr. Myndiuk. They saw how necessa ry is the medical equipment (four units), which the UNWLA purchased for the hospital laboratory at a cost of $126,000 and placed under the supervision of Dr. Andriy Petruch. The hospital requested additional equipment, which was purchased by the UNWLA in 1995 from the Coultronic Company in France for $2,475 and from Summit Scientific Interna tional — Dallas, TX, for $1,287. During this visit to Ukraine, UNWLA re presentatives also met with members of “Soyuz Ukrainok” in Ivano-Frankiv’sk. In Lviv, they visited the Basilian sisters, among them 120 www.unwla.org
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