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BARBARA BACHYNSKY, CHAIR SOCIAL WELFARE OF UNWLA Social Welfare of U N W LA Since its founding in 1925, one of the objectives of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America has been to provide aid to Ukrainians, no matter where they live. This assistance began when help was sent to poor and hungry people in Halychyna in the 1920s; assistance to Halychyna continued in the 1930s, specifically to those people targeted for political repression. The year 1933 presented new challenges. When the Great Famine brought misfortune and suf fering for the Ukrainian people, the UNWLA organized committees that supplied aid to famine victims. Members of the organization worked to disseminate information about the terrible crimes being perpetrated against the Ukrainian people; unfortunately, much of the free world remained ignorant of the truth about what was happening in Ukraine. In order to help victims of World War II, especially widows and children, the UNWLA organized the Mother and Child Fund. To provide aid to elderly Ukrainian woman living alone in Poland, Germany, Brazil, and Ukraine, the Grandmothers Fund was established. In the aftermath of World War II, there were many Ukrainian refugees in Western Europe, people who had fled Eastern European countries taken over by communism. In addition to sending food packages, clothing, and financial help, the UNWLA began to work on behalf of political prisoners and invalids. At the same time, in their communities in the United States, UNWLA members helped with the needs of new immigrants. In the 1980s, the Social Welfare Committee was intensively involved in providing assistance to Ukrainian settlers in South America, particularly those living in Brazil. Working in cooperation with the sisters of St. Olha Institute in Prudentopolis, the UNWLA recruited benefactors who would financially assist poor families with many children. In 1984, the Medical Aid Fund was established to help parents of ill Ukrainian children in South America. Eventually, this program was expanded to help ill children in Ukraine. Following the nuclear catastrophe in Chomobyl, the UNWLA mobilized its efforts, creating the Medical Aid Fund for Children. In a cooperative project with General Electric, we purchased an MRI unit and other medical equipment, including blood analyzers for hospitals in Lviv. A fibrohastroscape was funded for the children’s clinic at the Dzerelo sanatorium in Truskavtsi. To aid flood victims in Zakarpattia in 1998 and 2001, the UNWLA raised funds to purchase medicines and medical instruments. In 2000, the Milk and Roll program was initiated to help the youngest children in schools in Ukraine. This program was launched in Kharkiv and Lviv the same year the UNWLA was celebrating its 75th year of community work. As this report is being written, students in the first three grates in eleven schools (a total of 2,663 children) are served breakfast each day in Kharkiv, Luhansk, Yalta, Zhytomir, Lviv, as well as in Buchko and Lopukh in the Zakarpattia region. The program is coordinated locally by the presidents of Soyuz Ukrainok branches who receive funds and must present accurate reports on their distribution to receive further aid from the UNWLA. During the school year in 2002, 2003, and 2004, the UNWLA contributed $143,322 to the program. In 2002 and 2003, the UNWLA funded summer camps for ill children and youth from various regions of Ukraine. Our organization funded the cost of transportation and visits to interesting historical sites for the children. During these two years, 182 children participated in such camps in Truskavtsi and Yasen at a cost of $30,630. In 2002, assistance was provided to the orphans of the miners who died in mining accidents in Donetsk and to children who suffered after the catastrophic accident at the Sknyliv airport in Lviv. UNWLA President Iryna Kurowyckyj and Social Welfare Chair Barbara Bachynsky visited these areas and presented 98 children with $250 each; a total of $24,500 was distributed. The assistance to grandmothers and orphans provided over the years has been a cooperative effort with 30 regional branches of Soyuz Ukrainok of Ukraine. The presidents of the branches receive an 98 XXVII Конвенція СУА www.unwla.org
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