Mrs. Yushchenko placed emphasis on the importance of early breast cancer diagnostic. She added that the Ukraine 3000 Foundation would consider joining an information campaign aimed at fighting this disease in Ukraine.
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Mrs. Yushchenko and Mrs. Bush met with Country Director Mrs. Diane Schmidt, who described for them her organization’s activities in Ukraine, its major programs and attainments.
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In course of the brief meeting at the Horodetsky House the first ladies exchanged information on the educational programs and projects they are supervising.
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The diplomas, prize certificates, and presents were handed over to the winners by Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko.
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The law firm has granted the Foundation free legal assistance in conducting cost examination of a foreign contract on services in preparing design and estimate documentation between the Foundation and Building Design Partnership Ltd, Designer General of the All-Ukrainian Center to Protect Mother's and Children's Health, a.k.a. Children's Hospital of the Future.
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The Organizing Committee of the Second Innovative Intellect of Ukraine All-Ukrainian Youth Competition announces the schedule of the competition’s finals to be held March 28-29, 2008, in Kyiv.
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Mrs. Kateryna visited the Kyiv Polytechnic Science Park, where she familiartized herself with the work of the Super Computer Calculations Center and the Ukrainian Office of the Global Data Center. The staff of the Science Park made short presentations for the guest, dedicated to the major areas of a technopolis work. Later Mrs. Yushchenko visited the Institute of Informational Technologies in Education.
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According to the Contest Statute, the Organizing Committee has given a privilege to Kyiv and Kyiv oblast as the second region by the number of submitted works. Winners of both the first and second places will be invited to participate in the national selections. The contestants sharing the first or second place will be both invited to the national selections.
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The National Committee of the Innovative Intellect of Ukraine All-Ukrainian Youth Competition has finished assessing papers submitted for the contest in Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Mykolayiv oblasts.
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Mrs. Kateryna Yushchenko watched the junior and group competition finals. She also talked to the Deriuhina Cup founder and organizer Iryna Deriuhina.
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Every participant of the selections received a certificate of the contest participant. The authors of best works were awarded with diplomas. The first place winners will defend their papers in Kyiv at the national stage of the contest scheduled for March 28-29, 2008.
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The Committee approved the application form of the charitable project, through which leaders of the projects participating in the second stage of the Doing Good Starts with You program will submit information on the results of their projects. This form will be distributed among all 112 participants of the pilot group, implementing their charitable projects from January till April. The deadline for submitting information is April 20, 2008.
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The National Committee of the Innovative Intellect of Ukraine All-Ukrainian Youth Competition has finished assessing papers submitted for the contest in Zhytomyr oblast and the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea.
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Addressing the audience, Mr. Maksymchuk said that the Ukraine 3000 Foundation was supporting the Deriuhina Cup because helping gifted young people was one of its priorities. “These competitions have long become Ukraine’s gem and calling card,” he said.
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The National Committee of the Innovative Intellect of Ukraine All-Ukrainian Youth Competition has finished assessing papers submitted for the contest in Zakarpattia and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts.
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Accompanied by director of the Lviv Picture Gallery, Hero of Ukraine Borys Voznytsky, Mrs. Yushchenko viewed the classical and contemporary sculptures. She also talked to Ukrainian sculptors, authors of the works on display.
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The regional selections for the Innovative Intellect of Ukraine All-Ukrainian Youth Competition continue. They have already been held in Cherkasy, Sumy, Luhansk, and Odesa oblasts.
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