Kateryna Yushchenko Visits Lviv Boarding School for Blind Children
07 October 2009 15:14
October 7, 2009, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko visited Lviv Boarding School for Blind Children No. 100. Also present were First Deputy Head of Lviv OSA Valery Pyatak, Director of the Head Administration for Education and Culture at Lviv OSA Pavlo Khobzey, and Head Physician of Lviv City Community Children’s Hospital Dmytro Kvit.
Accompanied by Principal Iryna Kostrobyj, Mrs. Yushchenko toured the school. Faculty members told the guests the school’s history. Mrs. Kateryna visited classrooms, the gym, computer class and talked to the faculty and students.
Addressing the audience, Kateryna Yushchenko said that barrier-free environment is one of the Ukraine 3000 Foundation’s major priorities. “It is very important that every Ukraine’s citizen had equal access to treatment, rehabilitation, quality education, and work,” she said. This requires, in Mrs. Yushchenko’s words, not only perfecting and obeyance of law, but also changing the society’s attitude toward this problem.
“The main thing is that we worked together on giving all Ukrainians a chance to reach their goals, and that the society supported them in this,” Mrs. Yushchenko said. She proposed to create an organization protecting the rights of people with limited abilities.
Mrs. Kateryna also quoted the experience of foreign institutions for people with impaired sight, which she had visited.
On behalf of Ukraine 3000 Foundation Mrs. Yushchenko passed to Lviv Boarding School for Blind Children No. 100 a certificate for UAH 50,000 for equipping the classrooms.
Another 50,000 certificate was passed to Lviv City Community Children’s Hospital.
Lviv Boarding School for Blind Children No. 100 was founded in 1851. Since then it had never stopped its work. At present, it has 71 students with impaired sight or blind. The children are given education, rehabilitation, and work on their creative projects. Ten teachers supervise the educational process.
Mrs. Kateryna Yushchenko is staying in Lviv for a two-days working trip, whose main goal is attendeing the Second Ecumenical Social Week. October 6, Mrs. Kateryna made a speech at the On the Past for Future’s Sake: Historical Truth of the Soviet Period plenary session and took part in the presentation of the Repressed Spirituality: Destroying the Church, Religion, and Traditional Rites in Ukraine by the Communist Regime exhibition by Ukraine 3000 Foundation.
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