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XXXIІI Конвенція СУА 82 When we assumed our roles on the UNWLA National Board in the summer of 2021, there was no expectation that only a few months later a brutal and full- scale escalation by russia of an unprovoked war against Ukraine would begin on February 24, 2022. This unforeseen escalation in a war that began in 2014 brought numerous projects planned by the UNWLA to a standstill. Instead, everyone focused on obtaining and delivering urgently needed humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. As a result of this immediate need to provide aid, in addition to other responsibilities, suddenly I was also given the responsibilities of a newly created position: UNWLA Fundraising Chair. Projects and activities associated with that role will be outlined in an additional report. Although often varied, included among my key responsibilities this term as UNWLA Officer-at-Large were: • to serve as a liaison between the National Executive and the UNWLA XXXIII National Convention Committee (Convention Committee) and to coordinate the planning of the XXXIII Convention with the Convention Chair; to serve as a liaison from the National Executive to the Convention Book Committee. • to serve as a member of the Finance Committee. • to complete assignments received from the National President, including overseeing fundraising initiatives, research for and writing of grants, and attending non-UNWLA committee meetings. • to represent the National Executive on the UNWLA Cultural Affairs Standing Committee and Education Standing Committee. In addition to ongoing responsibilities, as Officer-at-Large, I had specific responsibilities related to several UNWLA projects, listed below. Digitization of the Gareth Jones Diaries The diaries digitization project began during my previous term as Chair of the UNWLA Social Media Standing Committee. The UNWLA was the primary sponsor of the digitization of the diaries of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones; the diaries are now online, available to the public. However, due to the COVID pandemic, both the completion of the project, as well as the presentation of the completed diaries digitization project were delayed. In May 2022, an event was held at the Welsh Parliament in Cardiff, Wales, both to honor the contributions to international journalism of Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones for his bold reporting about the Holodomor of 1932-33 when other journalists denied the existence of massive famine in Ukraine, as well as to celebrate the completion of the digitization of Gareth Jones’ diaries in which his personal observations of the Holodomor were recorded. As the liaison from UNWLA to this project, I traveled to Wales to speak before the Welsh Parliament about the UNWLA’s key role in preserving the memory of the Holodomor by supporting projects such as the digitization of the Gareth Jones diaries. The large audience included Welsh First Prime Minister Mark Drakeford, members of the Welsh Parliament, and several family members of Gareth Jones, including his great nephew. During my time in Wales, I spent time with several members of Gareth Jones’ family, as well as with Professor Lubomyr Luciuk, who attended the event on behalf of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. Along with Gareth Jones’ great nephew, and Mick Antoniw, a Welsh Parliament member, Prof Luciuk, and I visited the Gareth Jones gravesite to lay flowers. An article that summarized the event was published in Ninnau, and in other Welsh newspapers. Upon my return, I authored an article, which included my speech before the Welsh Parliament, for publication in the July 2022 issue of Our Life . During the National Board meeting in May 2022, I presented a slideshow of the OKSANA LODZIUK KRYWULYCH UNWLA OFFICER-AT-LARGE
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