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All-Ukrainian Charitable Action for the International Children’s Day Summed Up

The All-Ukrainian Charitable Action for the International Children’s Day was summed up, held at the Ukrainian House May 29 – June 1, 2009. Recall that the action included the Beneficial Children’s Book Fair, a fundraiser and collecting book donations for Ukrainian boarding schools, We See the World with Our Hearts charitable concert, and All-Ukrainian Ice Cream Festival.

Forty-five Ukrainian publishing houses took part in the Beneficial Children’s Book Fair, taking part in collecting book donations and donating 4,000 books and magazines to boarding schools. The books will go to:

• Zhytomyr oblast: Zhytomyr Boarding School for orphans and children deprived of parents’ care;
• Chernihiv oblast:  Komariv, Starobasan, and Yabluniv Boarding Schools, Nizhyn Orphanage and Boarding School;
• Kyiv oblast: Skvyr Nadiya Orphanage, Bila Tserkva Orphanage and Boarding School, Yakiv Batyuk Kyiv Boarding School No.5 for Blind Children, and Special Kyiv Arts and Esthetics Boarding School No. 11 for Children with Weak Sight.

The fair visitors collected over 1,000 books also to be passed over to orphanages as part of the Books for Children all-Ukrainian charitable project.

Due to the action’s partners, Volya Company and DAR charitable foundation, UAH 16,000 were donated to four educational institutions: Zhytomyr Boarding School for orphans and children deprived of parents’ care, Starobasan and Yabluniv Boarding Schools (Chernihiv oblast), and Skvyr Nadiya Orphanage (Kyiv oblast). The funds raised at the fair (UAH 3,000) will be passed over to the Komariv Boarding School (Chernihiv oblast).

In addition to the books and money, the action’s partners Craft Foods Ukraine, Coca Cola Beverages Ukraine Ltd., and Poltavakondyter PC prepared candy and presents for the boarding schools and orphanages wards.

In course of the action, children from Sviatoshyn Orphanage and Boarding School (Kyiv) amd Kropivnya Boarding School (Cherkasy oblast) visited the Ukrainian House, receiving books and candy and taking part in tours of the capital, organized by the Ukrainian House.

The Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation places high emphasis on book publishing and distribution. The Foundation replenishes book funds of Ukrainian medical and educational facilities, libraries, and museums with mini-libraries, book sets, albums, its own publications on regular basis and carries out actions on donating books to institutions and private persons.

Since 2005, the Ukraine 3000 Foundation has distributed among various Ukraine’s institution and private persons over 55,000 books.

The Foundation’s program envisages preparing and publishing domestic and foreign books on various themes. A part of their pressrun is always donated to correspondent institutions, schools, and libraries.

The foundation prints and reprints many books and translations on the Holodomor Manmade Famine. In 2006-2007 it had published Valentyna Borysenko’s The Candle of Memory: Oral History of the Genocide of the Ukrainians, Robert Conquests Harvest of Sorrow, Manmade Famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933: A Collection of Articles (compiled by Nadia Diuk), The Declassified Memory: The Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 through GPU-NKVD Documents compiled by Valentyna Borysenko, and Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: Documents and Materials compiled by Ruslan Pyrih. All those books were presented at the Lviv Publishers’ Forum in the fall of 2007. In 2008, two more books were published: Mykola Starovoytov’s Holodomor in Luhansk Oblast and Olesia Stasiuk’s The Genocide of the Ukrainians: Deformation of the Folk Culture.

In 2006 the Foundation passed over 500 copies of the Manmade Famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933: A Collection of Articles publication to the State Administrative Department and another 300 – to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. In 2008, around 11,500 copies of books dedicated to Holodomor had been distributed among oblast and district libraries and colleges in Ukraine.

In 2009, the Foundation published a collection of materials from the Doing Good Starts with You All-Ukrainian Charitable Projects Competition. A part of the pressrun (over 1,100 copies) was donated to the competition participants. Another part will be distributed among Ukraine’s junior and secondary schools.

Also this year, the Ukraine’s Red Book of Poetry was published.

Recently, the Foundation presented a Ukrainian translation of the The Migration Period: The History of the Restless Fourth and Fifth Century Period,  500 copies of which will be distributed among Ukraine’s libraries, museums, and schools.

In the years of the Ukraine 3000 Foundation’s work, a series of big actions on donating books has been organized.

Starting from 2005, the Foundation has held a number of actions on distributing The Complete Book of Mother & Baby Care by Elisabeth Fenwick. In 2005-2006 the Foundation run an action, distributing around 12,000 copies of the book among future mothers. In 2006-2007, two more actions were held, donating around 8,500 copies to village libraries. In 2009, the Foundation announced a new action on distributing The Complete Book of Mother & Baby Care to every maternity welfare center in Ukraine, registered with the Ministry of Health Care.

In 2006, the Ukraine 3000 Foundation and Center for Museum Development carried out an action on donating book sets to oblast and district libraries. As part of this action, 180 Ukraine’s libraries received 1,080 albums of the National Arts Museum and other publications.

In 2007, the Foundation carried out the Cossack Glory for Little Readers project, delivering 4,650 copies of the Ukraine’s Hetmans book to libraries and schools in Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, and Chernihiv oblasts.

That same year, the Foundation delivered to the Health Care Ministry of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea 550 copies of The Man handbook on anatomy and physiology, which were distributed among family ambulance stations and first aid and obstetrics stations in the Crimea.

The Man books were also delivered to all Hospital to Hospital program member hospitals (the total of 1,280 copies). Over 800 copies were donated to the Artek ICC.

In 2007 the Ukraine 3000 Foundation established the Unique Ukraine award to celebrate the best book on history and/or culture within the framework of the Lviv Publishers’ Forum. The Fioundation purchases a part of such book’s pressrun and delivers it among Ukraine’s libraries. The first prize winner was Yaroslav Dashkevych’s book, Personae: Essays on Historical, Political, and Cultural Figures. The Foundation purchased and distributed around 350 copies of the book. The next year’s winner was the Big Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ukraine.

Over 7,000 books were donated to libraries of the Hospital to Hospital program member hospitals, other patient care institutions, schools, orphanages, and boarding schools.

Winners and participants of all competitions held by the Foundation are presented with book sets.

Additionally, the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation prepares and publishes a number of periodicals. Since 2004, the Ukrainian Museum bulletin has been published. 15 issues have been published so far, with an average pressrun of 1,000 copies. The bulletin is distributed free of charge among Ukraine’s museums, museum-related institusions, and the museum society.

In 2006-2008, seven issues of the Joy of the Childhood – Free Movements magazine had been published. The publication’s pressrun is 16,000 copies. It is distributed free of charge among families having children with cerebral palsy.

In the fall of 2008, the first issue of Hospital to Hospital magazine was published with a pressrun of 1,000. It is distributed among Ukraine’s patient care institutions and medicine-related facilities.

In October 2008, the Books for Children all-Ukrainian charitable project was launched, co-organized by the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation. The project, in part, envisages donating books to society-oriented children’s institutions for creating full-fledged children’s libraries. At present, the organizers have toured 12 Ukraine’s oblasts, donating around 14,000 books. The Ukraine 3000 Foundation’s contribution of this action was 4,700 books.

Since 2005 the Ukraine 3000 Foundation has donated printed editions to institutions and private persons to the total of over one million hryvnias.