The event featured a tour of the Old Academic Building, silent auction of contemporary Ukrainian art (curator – Pavlo Hudimov), a performance by Oleh Skrypka and New Era Orchestra, and a lottery conducted by European embassies in Ukraine.
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Natural persons and legal entities, irrespective of their form of ownership, place of incorporation, and location, acknowledging their intent to take part in the tender through submitting a bid meeting the Conditions of the tender, are invited to participate.
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We lost a beautiful and sincere person, a great patriot giving her whole life to the Ukrainian cause and dedicating her efforts to Ukraine’s gaining independence and the creation of the Ukrainian state.
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The Yuletide program was presented by Day Bozhe [God Bless] authentic folk group and attended by students of Bucha boarding school, Dolonky [Little Hands] Children’s Development Center, Kyiv Dnypro Region Social Center for Family, Children, and Young People, Otchy Dim [Father’s House] Social Care Center, children of staff members of the organizations taking active part in the Charity Week: public and charitable organizations, leading Ukrainian TV channels.
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The award to the Charitable Organization nomination winner, Zaporuka [Guarantee] All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation, was delivered by Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko.
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“Everybody in this audience shares a secret: doing good things brings one tremendous satisfaction,” Mrs. Yushchenko said in her speech. She believes that helping others is a part of Ukraine’s history and culture, “a part of our roots.” “Charity had been almost completely destroyed in the Soviet era, when denouncing one’s neighbors was encouraged instead of helping them, but today it is going through a swift process of revival,” she said.
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At 3:30 PM the Trends and Ways of Development of Charity in Ukraine plenary session was held, attended by Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko, president of Craft Foods Ukraine Company Yuri Lohush, Head of the Ukrainian Independent Center for Political Research Maksym Latsyba, and Head of the Democratic Initiatives Center Iryna Bekeshkina.
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Before announcing the winners of the Philanthropist 2010 National Competition, Mr. Letenko introduced those who had assessed this year’s application. Recall that every year the jury is convoked of the experts on social development and charity, answering the criteria and possessing necessary experience for selecting the best examples of charity. The names of the jury are kept secret till the end of the assessment process.
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On Tuesday, December 14, 2010, at 12:00 AM, a joint press conference by the Supervisory Board, Organizing Committee, and Jury of the Philanthropist 2010 National Competition will be held at InterNedia Consulting informational agency’s media hall (Leonardo business cente at 17/52 Bohdana Khmelnytskoho St.).
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The cooperation between Ukraine 3000 Foundation and Evpatoriya Central Children’s Clinical Resort at the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine began in 2006. In part, the resort was a winner of the second grant competition for facilities servicing children with cerebral palsy as part of the Joy of the Childhood – Free Movement program. In 2009 the resort’s head Anatoliy Nenko received the Ukraine 3000 Foundation’s award, For Outstanding Achievements in Children’s Health Care.
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The We Care social photography and video all-Ukrainian youth media competition was organized by Friends of the Children Charitable Foundation. Thirty youth and public organizations and services from cities and towns in 11 Ukraine’s oblasts took part in the competition, 7 of them being boarding schools. The total of 182 photos and over 25 video clips was applied to the competition, with around 100 young people being their individual and collective authors.
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Representatives of charitable and non-governmental institutions are invited to participate, dealing with the development of and support for philanthropy in Ukraine, scholarly and educational institutions, national business, electronic and printed media, international and foreign organizations supporting charity in Ukraine.
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The Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation’s medical department staff members met with Dr. Wood, discussing the ways for further cooperation.
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The conference’s key topic was preserving sacral historical, cultural, and architectural monuments within the contemporary context. In part, it analyzed the Ukrainian and French experience of joint use of such objects as religious and cultural objects simultaneously.
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On that day in Kyiv representatives of political parties and public organizations, youth movements, the Congress of National Communities – at least 5,000 people all-in-all, - went on a march from Arsenalna Sq. to the National Holodomor Memorial, where heads of various churches celebrated a memorial service. People coming to the Memorial brought with them not just candles but also apples and wheat ears to place on the monument to the children of Holodomor.
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