The participants of the meeting discussed the possibilities for establishing contacts between engineering colleges and also in preserving and promoting the cultural heritage, as well as establishing cooperation between Delft and one of Ukrainian cities.
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Participants from 17 countries of Europe were taking part in the Junior Eurovision finals. This year its theme is Water and slogan, Make a Big Splash! The Ahoj Rotterdam center’s stage was decorated with various water-related elements, and in the end all 17 participants sang together the One World “water anthem.” Ukraine was represented by Ilona Halytska, 11, with the song Lessons in Glamour.
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Mrs. Kateryna Yushcehnko thanked the representatives of the Netherlands humanitarian organizations for their help to Ukraine, in part, the organizations helping Ukrainian children.
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December 3-4, 2007, Expert with the Medical Programs Dept. of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund Taras Tkachuk and Head Physician of the Sumy Oblast Children’s Hospital Arkadiy Lushpa went on a working trip to Geneva.
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December 4, 2007, the first payment of UAH 1,000,000 arrived to the Children’s Hospital of the Future Charitable e Children’s Hospital of the Future Charitable Fund’s account from from Zaporizhstal PC.
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The Contest Committee resolved to create an Expert Committee for processing the bids, to be headed by Director of the Ukraine 3000 Fund’s Medical Programs Department Vira Pavliuk. It was also decided to invite to the Committee an independent expert, Head of the Toxicology and ER Department at OKHMATDIT, M.D. Borys Sheyman. The members of the Committee will be considering the bids till December 3, 2007, at 5:00 p.m., Kyiv time.
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Mrs. Kateryna and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Poland to Ukraine Jacek Kluczkowski decorated the winners of the project, Hanna Pelypenko and Marcin Mroczek, with Dancing Stars awards made of crystal.
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The event featured a series of workshops seeking the best way to solve issues connected with creating conditions allowing children and teenagers to fulfill themselves in terms of health and development, as well as reducing the sickness and mortality rates.
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The document was signed by Head of the Children’s Hospital of the Future Fund Vira Pavliuk on behalf of the Fund and Director of the Kyiv Clinical Medical Center Anatoliy Babushkin on behalf of the Center.
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The Committee considered 220 charitable projects submitted to the Doing Good Starts with You program. 71 works were selected to take part in the pilot project scheduled for January-April 2008, with another 86 admitted on the condition of correcting flaws discovered by the Committee.
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In her speech, Mrs. Yushchenko said that in Ukraine family had always been not only a social unit but often the only mechanism of passing faith, culture, traditions, and even language from generation to generation.
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The purchase of the first-aid kits and electric pumps has become possible owing to a joint action by McDonalds Ukraine and Ukraine 3000 Fund. During the World Children’s Day at McDonald’s action, held from November 5 to 25 in 16 Ukraine’s cities, every visitor of a McDonald’s restaurant could buy paper hands, charms, and bracelets. UAH 900,000 was raised in course of the action. The Expert Council selected 30 hospitals in all Ukraine’s oblasts to receive equipment necessary for emergency medical aid.
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The fundraising within the framework of the World Children’s Day at McDonald’s action is being held from November 5 to 25 in 16 Ukraine’s cities. During this period, every visitor of a McDonald’s restaurant can buy paper hands, charms, and bracelets. All proceeds will be channeled for purchasing modern medical equipment for emergency medical aid at children’s hospitals throughout Ukraine.
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The document was signed, from the Israeli part, by the Center’s Director Marc Mimouni Head of the Board of Directors of the Dankner Group Holding Gil Dankner, and on the Ukrainian part – by Head of the Medical Programs Department of the Ukraine 3000 Fund Vira Pavliuk and Head Physician of the Odesa Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital Oleksandr Liman.
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Mrs. Yushchenko said the exhibition would give many Israelis a chance to not only familiarize themselves with a foreign country but also see their grandparents’ native land. “I am happy that this display will allow you to see some of my country, tell you about the gems of its architecture, picturesque landscape, and life of its people,” she said. Mrs. Kateryna wished everybody a nice time and invited them to visit Ukraine.
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