The participants of the meeting discussed the events dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Manmade Famine in Ukraine. The Diaspora representatives told Mrs. Kateryna about UCCA effort to popularize the truth about this tragedy in the US. In her turn, Mrs. Kateryna described the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund’s programs and projects dedicated to Holodomor, in part, the Lessons in History: Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 program.
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In course of the meeting, Mrs. Yushchenko and Mr. DeGioia discussed Georgetown University’s cooperation with Ukrainian educational institutions and the possibilities for enlivening student exchange programs between the two countries. Besides, Mrs. Yushchenko descrived the Ukraine 3000 Fund’s educational programs and projects.
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Lev Dobriansky is famous mostly as a politician dedicating himself to the fight against totalitarianism and communism. Dr. Dobriansky was the author in 1959 of the Captive Nations Week Resolution, celebrated annually by Congress and the White House for nearly five decades. He was the first President of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and was a strong advocate for Ukrainian independence. He also played a leading role in having legislation passed to erect a statue of Taras Shevchenko. In his last years he was involved in establishing the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and a memorial to the victims of Communism.
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They discussed issues related to the cooperation between the Ukraine 3000 Fund and Luhansk Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital, in part, the participation of Luhansk doctors in the Fund’s educational programs within the framework of the Hospital to Hospital and Children's Hospital of the Future programs.
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Mrs. Yushchenko told Mr. McAndrews about the Ukraine 3000 Fund work, in part, its medical projects and programs: Children's Hospital of the Future, Joy of the Childhood: Free Movements, and Hospital to Hospital. Discussing the Children's Hospital of the Future, Mr. MacAndrews described major trends in creating modern patient care institutions for children.
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The major goal of the Program remains the same: offer beneficial aid to the professionals who make their museum a central piece of the cultural space in their region, serving the society and popularizing the cultural heritage preserved in their museum.
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This program is planned to select the biggest attainments and challenges defining the society’s attitude toward the museums and museum business in 2007.
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Mrs. Yushchenko introduced Minister Schmidt to medical projects and programs carried out by Ukraine 3000 Fund, describing in more detail 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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Addressing the guests, MRS. Yushchenko described the Ukrainian Cinema Foundation created on the initiative of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund. She emphasized that the Foundation’s priority was presenting and promoting the Ukrainian cinema globally. “We are happy to have made one of the first and most important steps to make Ukrainian cinema popular and fashionable,” she said. “We’ll work on finding and supporting young talents who will eventually create modern Ukrainian cinema.”
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The parties discussed Ukraine’s participation in the Berlin International Film Festival and exchanged their experience in involving non-state funds into supporting national cinema.
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The participants of the meeting discussed the cooperation between Ukrainian film producers and International Federation of Film Producers Associations. In part, Mr. Ginisty proposed to organize a series of conferences or roundtables at the Molodist Film Festival aimed at involving Ukrainian producers into the international network.
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The major topic for the discussion was Ukraine’s participation in the Cannes Film Festival and Film Market. This year Ukraine will have its own pavilion at the festival. So, the participants of the meeting discussed a serried of events aimed at its promotion. Besides, the aprties discussed the possibility of including a retrospect of Ukrainian film classics into the official program of the Cannes Festival.
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Mr. Maksymchuk red out an address from Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund Kateryna Yushchenko to the participants of the workshop.
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Commenting on this decision, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund Kateryna Yushchenko said that this event symbolized successful completion of an important stage of the creation of the Children’s Hospital of the Future. “We hope that we’ll soon go through the next stages and start the construction, looked forward to by the whole country,” she said.
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