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Soyuz Ukrainok has caught God's eye by helping our mission. May God abundantly bless UNWLA for their generous donations. - Lilia Kovalenko, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker’s Food & Clothing Coordinator In 2009, we were able to discontinue the “Moloko і Bulochka” Fund because, as we were advised, the government of Ukraine supplies breakfasts for schoolchildren. That same year, the UNWLA officially started work on a new fund called “Assistance and Caring for the Elderly,” which is aimed at helping selected nursing homes in Ukraine. Our assistance is particularly important today when the entire world, and Ukraine in particular, is going through an economic crisis. Senior citizens prove most vulnerable in such circumstances, unable to find work or even housing. Some are forced to look for shelter and find it in these nursing homes. Incidentally the concept of “nursing homes” was unknown in Ukraine where families generally cared for their loved ones. I took an active part in this endeavor, the official start of which was to coincide with the 85th anniversary of the UNWLA’s founding. I worked with UNWLA President Marianna Zajac in selecting items that were necessities for residents. Mission Outreach, a not-for-profit organization housed in Chicago, generously provided many of these items, free of charge. The organization was organized in 2002 by Hospital Sisters as a humanitarian enterprise, working with health care organizations to recover and responsibly redistribute medical equipment and supplies to people in need around the world. In December 2009, Marianna Zajac, Iryna Rudyk, and I traveled to Chicago where, with the help of 10 energetic local UNWLA volunteers, we packed over 200 boxes in a huge, cold Mission Outreach warehouse for shipment to “Our Nursing Homes.” Despite (or perhaps because of) the brisk weather, it was a worthwhile, exhilarating experience. A Candle in Remembrance Starting on July 15, 2009, I took over as coordinator of the translation project of A Candle in Remembrance, a monumental project that was generously funded by Martha T. Pelensky. Candle (as all of those involved soon began to call the book and the project) is a book about the Holodomor and was originally written in Ukrainian by Professor Valentyna Borysenko, an ethnologist who holds a doctorate in history and has been honored by Ukraine as a distinguished scholar and academician. The author of some 170 scholarly works, Professor Borysenko has served as senior research fellow in the Department of National Culture at the Scientific Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine since 2006. Borysenko began collecting oral testimonies about the 1932-1933 Famine-Genocide in 1994. During the initial phase of the project, she recorded many eyewitness accounts of the tragedy in the Polissia district of Kyiv oblast, which currently lies under zone two of radioactive contamination resulting from the Chornobyl nuclear disaster (April 1986). She presented material based on those oral testimonies at international symposia (Kyiv, 2005). A documentary film, “To Live Is Forbidden” (2005), was based on testimonies personally collected by Dr. Borysenko. Today, Valentyna Borysenko is concentrating her efforts on preparing a new, enlightened cadre of Ukrainian scholars. Serving as project coordinator for the translation of Prof. Borysenko’s book was not easy. First of all, I read and re-read the Ukrainian version of the book several times to be prepared for discussions with others involved in the project. I did, however, enjoy the close cooperation with the editor Tamara Stadnychenko, our cover designer Areta Buk, and printer Marie Duplak. We spent many days and nights on the phone and exchanged many emails. Toward the end of the project we also engaged a non- Ukrainian proofreader whose task was to locate any names or terminology that might be confusing to non-Ukrainian readers so that the editor could insert appropriate annotations where needed. The work also included many interesting phone conversations with Prof. Borysenko, who lives in Ukraine. When the translation was published, Prof. Borysenko was able to get a visa and attended the formal presentation of XXIX Конвенція СУА 87 www.unwla.org
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