Ukraine 3000 Foundation and Its Partners Send Charitable Aid to Victims of the Ntural Disaster in Ukraine’s Western Regions
17 August 2008 18:07
The Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation continues its action to relief resident of Ukraine’s western regions suffering from natural disaster. Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko said this at a press conference at the village of Nyzhniv, Tlumaky district, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. Also present at the conference were Ganza JSC Director General Petro Bahriy, Executive Director of the Borys Lutovsky’s Health of the Nation Foundation Dariya Haydukevych, and Director of the Ukraine 3000 Foundation’s Medical Programs Dept. Vira Pavliuk.
Addressing the audience, Mrs. Yushchenko expressed her sympathy to all victims of the tragedy, especially those losing their family and children. “Today I had a chance to meet many people suffering from the flood,” she said. “I saw destroyed houses, schools, hospitals, libraries. I saw how the calamity had changed the lives of many people; some – for months, others – forever.”
Simultaneously, Mrs. Yushchenko said she was satisfied with the consequences of the flood being overcame, slowly but staidly. “The flow of both local and foreign support has demonstrated that we Ukrainians are a part of the community, that we have learnt to help each other in need,” she said. “I’m touched by the prompt and truly Christian response we have witnessed.”
Mrs. Yushchenko said that the Ukraine 3000 Foundation and its partners are also rendering aid to the devastated areas. Supported by the Ministry for Agricultural Policy, the Foundation turned to big agricultural companies, which had donated 500 ton flour, 100 ton sugar, 150 ton sunflower seed oil, and 20 ton meat.
Coca Cola International, which had already donated 70,000 l drinking water to the weatherworn areas, today has added another 80,000 l.
Together with the Ganza JSC, the Foundation donates an ambulance equipped with everything required for emergency help to the Chernivtsi Oblast Children’s Hospital No. 2. The cost of the car is UAH 400,000. The Foundation and Ganza Company also continue shipping medicine to the total costs of UAH 300,000 to Chernivtsi Oblast.
Supported by the Healthcare Ministry of Ukraine, the Pharmaceutical Enterprises Association of Ukraine sent to the flooded areas medicines to the total of UAH 424,000. Mrs. Yushchenko said that the Ukraine 3000 Foundation also joined this action and donated several thousand of vaccines against hepatitis A together with Sanofi Aventis Company.
Mrs. Kateryna added that the Foundation together with Ganza Company is passing over 50 book sets of albums by the National Arts Museum of Ukraine to Ivano-Frankivsk oblast district and school libraries and Ukrainian and foreign books – to Ternopil oblast. The total cost of the books is over UAH 200,000.
Katreyna Yushchenko thanked the Borys Lutovsky’s Health of the Nation Foundation donating a UAH 1,000,020 worth of medicine. The list of necessary medicines was agreed by the Foundation with the Disaster Relief Headquarters and contains anti-fever, anti-diarrheal, and antibiotic pills. The medicines will be sent to patient care institutions in the flooded areas.
“We hope that this aid will cover the most urgent needs in these areas,” Mrs. Kateryna said.
In addition, Mrs. Yushchenko said that her visits to people’s houses had revealed every family’s most acute needs: from children’s clothes to construction materials. The Ukraine 3000 Foundation decided to render the devastated areas financial aid of UAH 500,000 to purchase concrete, window panes, bricks, clothes, and books for the children on the eve of the new academic year, school desks and blackboards for the restored schools, blankets and sheets,” she said.
Mrs. Kateryna added that Ukraine 3000 Foundation representatives would stay in the region to “assess most urgent needs and coordinate further support from the business and charitable organizations for the coming weeks and months.”
Mrs. Yushchenko thanked everybody who “spared no time, money, and other kinds of help, demonstrating that our people are united and willing to support each other.”
On behalf of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation, Mrs. Yushchenko gave the Nyzhniv village dispensary an emergency aid kit containing a tonometer, ECG machine with a set of consumables, aspirator, and digital scales for newborns. The total costs of the kit comes to UAH 45,000.
Also, an action was started to pass book sets to Ivano-Frnkivsk oblast libraries, with Nyzhniv library being the first to get the books.
In addition, Mrs. Yushchenko and Mr. Bagriy gave the Chernivtsi Oblast Children’s Hospital No. 2 Head Physician Natalia Shevchuk the keys from the new reanimobile.
The flood disaster of July 23-27 in Vinnytsia, Ivan-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Lviv, Ternopil, and Chernivtsi oblasts caused vast damage and fatal casualties. Earlier the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation has sent donations of UAH 10,000 each to the officially announced fundraising accounts for Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, and Lviv oblasts.
Photo by Vadym MASLOV
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