Ukraine 3000 holds presentation
29 June 2005 20:38
On June 29, the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation held a presentation.
At a press conference before the presentation, the Head of the Foundation said the Ukraine 3000 was not financed by government organizations and did not use the so-called administrative resource.
The Foundation functions on donations of certain sponsors, private organizations, and other charitable foundations and does not aspire to become a large organization with many staff members.
“The Foundation is a coordinating center and we carry out all our projects conjointly with our partners. There are hundreds of such partner organizations,” stressed Andriy Myroshnichenko, Advisor to the Head of the Supervisory Council.
He said the biggest of them were the Otchiy Dim Charitable Foundation, the Help Us – Help Children Foundation, the Kolo Ra Foundation, and the Triumf Sertsya Foundation.
The Ukraine 3000 works in three major fields metaphorically called Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Each of the three directions has several specific programs. In 2005-2006, the Foundation plans to provide grants for cultural and historical projects. Myroshnichenko also informed the present that last month the Foundation had spent almost UAH 25,000 on charity.
About 80% of those who address the Foundation ask to buy medicine for treatment.
According to the Advisor, the Head of the Ukraine 3000 Foundation signed an agreement with the Zaporizhstal Plant that would help repair the Zaporizhzhya Central Children’s Hospital.
The Foundation also signed a 1.5-million-hryvnya agreement with the Procter&Gamble to buy ambulance vehicles for children’s clinics. Among other famous partners of the Ukraine 3000 Foundation are the Kredo-Klassic Insurance Company, the Mandarin Plaza Organization, the Crimean Soda Plant, the Metro Cash& Carry. Ukraine, and others.
Myroshnichenko also said the Foundation would help hold the Second International Folk Festival Kraina Mriy (Dreamland).
Answering a question whether an average person could get any aid from the Foundation, Kateryna Yushchenko, Head of the Supervisory Council, said that “resources of any foundation are quite limited and so we prefer to use a general approach to solve problems.” According to the First Lady, because of numerous appeals from parents whose children undergo treatment in the hematology and cancer ward of the Okhmadit, the Foundation decided to raise funds to re-equip the whole hospital.
Touching on an issue of cultural projects and museums, Mrs. Yushchenko said the state was “right to work with NGOs and private sponsors to support culture”.
“It is better when culture is supported by people than by the state,” she said.
“Recently, the state did not focus its attention on this. In the whole world culture is supported by private foundations and sponsors,” she noted.
The Ukraine 3000 Foundation was founded by Victor Yushchenko in 2001. In 2005, his wife Kateryna headed its Supervisory Council.
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