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In 1987, Orysia Jacus became treasurer and since 1988, Luba Bilowchtchuk is the administrator of the UNWLA Scholarship Bureau. Odarka Polanskyj joined the com mittee as fund raiser. Because of so many devoted volunteers, the administrative ex penses have remained under 3%. In order to make personal contacts and confirm the need of our assistance in South America, Anna Krawczuk with Ksenia Hapij visited Brazil and Argentina in 1985. In 1989 Anna Krawczuk and Vera Mycio made the very first trip to Poland and Yugoslavia to assess the situation in those countries. These trips reaffirmed our commitment to helping needy Ukrainian students achieve an educa tion and at the same time ensure their ethnic identity, religion and traditions. From very modest beginnings the pro gram developed to over a thousand scholar ship recipients in 1989 and more than seven hundred sponsors. That year became a turn ing point in our program which was expanded to include Eastern European countries, par ticularly Yugoslavia. In 1989 our program became completely centralized by using the same guidelines in Europe and in South America. Because of the poitical situation in Eastern Europe this could not be done in previous years. Political events there and the fall of the USSR in 1991 also opened the door to Romania and Ukraine. Ukrainians liv ing in Romania are now rebuilding their lives after many years of communist terror. Most Ukrainians live in poverty in remote villages in the mountainous regions of Romania. Our meager scholarship aid ($25-50 a year per child) helps families to survive. In the last few years, it has become quite evident that Ukrainians in Romania are experiencing the rebirth of Ukrainian culture and religion. Children are learning the Ukrainian language, and they communicate with their sponsors and with us in Ukrainian. Our support in Romania is not only financial but also moral for it affords the children and their families an opportunity to come into contact with other Ukrainians in the Diaspora. In 1991 we had nineteen students from Ukraine who studied abroad, mostly in Italy, France, and the USA, some under student exchange programs. The Scholarship/Student Sponsorship Program of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America celebrated its Silver An niversary in 1992. For 25 years our program has assisted hundreds of students in Argen tina, Brazil, Paraguay, England, Italy, Poland, Yugoslavia and the United States of Amer ica. It has enabled thousands of orphans, abandoned children and children from large families to continue their schooling, no lon ger doomed to a fate that was dictated to them by their financial standing or social position. Through the generosity of UNWLA sponsors, one by one young men became Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox priests; both boys and girls eventually be came doctors, dentists, engineers and lawy ers. Some young women became nuns and cathecists and many became teachers, secre taries, and bookkepers. During the years 1987-1992, $1,110,295.56 US dollars were paid out in scholarships. In 1992 M. Orysia Jacus and Anna Krawczuk visited Ukraine and started a program in Ivano-Frankivsk. Nadia Nynka, UNWLA Scho larship Program Committee member, is our representative in Ukraine. We also received many applications from Romania, mostly from orphans who are cared for by Ukrainians there. In 1992, our first scholarship recipient from Ukraine, Lesia Isaievych, sponsored by Melania Banach (Branch 86), graduated from Tufts University (Lesia also designed our logo). In 1994, she graduated from Princeton University with a Master’s Degree in interna tional economics. Our former scholarship re cipient from Poland, Lidia Stefanowska, (pre viously sponsored by Vera Mycio and Natalia Chaplenko), is continuing her studies on a full fellowship at Harvard University, Slavic Department, for a Ph.D. program in Ukrain ian Literature. She is being sponsored by Mrs. Olena Papiz, who also helped Maryana Drach from Ukraine in 1991. Many of our scholarship recipients in various countries became qualified Ukrain ian language teachers. This was possible only because their teachers (Ukrainian priests, Ukrainian nuns of many orders, cathecists of Santa Olga Institute, lay teachers in cities and villages) kept the Ukrainian language alive in countries of their settlement. In 1973, Olga Korczagin, sposored by Daria and Ja- roslaw Howytkowycz of Ohio, became the first college graduate in Brazil to be spon sored through our program. Olga is now the Director of the Institute of Cathecists of the 127 www.unwla.org
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