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Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Cathecists run boarding schools, called the Colegio Santa Olga, for girls of Ukrainian heritage in Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Olga Korczagin has devoted her life to educating Ukrainian youth, most of them from remote cokrTTo-s and vil lages. The main objective of the Colegio Santa Olga for the last 50 years has been to educate young women and to instill in them the value of the Ukrainian language, culture, traditions, and religion. Many graduates of their school are now leaders in Ukrainian- Brazilian communities, as well as powerful figures in the Brazilian government in the states of Parana and Santa Catarina. In Brazil, a proposed bill by then State Representative Deputat Vera Viximicen Agel- bert (a graduate of the Santa Olga Institute in Prudentopolis), was passed making the Ukrainian language a mandatory subject in Federal schools in the states of Parana and Santa Catarina, from the 5th to 12th grades. In 1991 Maria Magdalena Lozovei was named Federal Director of Ukrainian Language Stu dies in those two states. Maria was spon sored through high school by UNWLA Branch 1 of New York City and obtained two degrees with the help of Dr. Anna Samofal. Her course in Methodology in Teaching the Ukrainian Language in Canda was funded in part by Natalia Chaplenko in memory of Prof. Vasyl Chaplenko. In the 1980’s Nadia Kerecuk, then on the faculty at the Federal University in Curitiba, Parana, fought with others to have the Ukra inian langauge accredited at that university and taught the Ukrainian language wintout compensation. Her translations of Ukrainian fairy tales into Portuguese are now used in elementary schools throughout Brazil. Pres ently, Nadia is completing her Doctorate in Ukrainian linguistics at the London Univerity, England, with the help of an anonymous UNWLA sponsor. Eugenia Mazepa of the Ukrainian Wo men’s Organization in Curitiba, Parana, Bra zil, was instrumental in establishing and heading the Saturday Ukrainian studies School in Curitiba, over twenty-five years ago, and our own Nadia Muzeka is a director of one in Prudentopolis, Parana. In Argentina Father Joseph Spaciuk, OSBM, the first of our scholarship recipients to be ordained by Pope John Paul II in 1987, was sponsored by Mae and Mykola Bojczuk. Collegio Santa Olga, Brazil. UNWLA sponsored seminarians. 1992. Brazil. He learned the Ukrainian language at the Basilian Seminary, and has now organized and strengthened the Ukrainian Studies School in Apostoles, Misiones. In Poland where boarding schools existed in Bilyj Bir and Lignica for many years, Collegio Santa Olga. 1994. Prudentopolis, Brazil 128 www.unwla.org
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