The first part of the display presents photographs by children from boarding houses in Kyiv and Kyiv oblast. The second part of the display is a photo-account on the Ukrainian leg of the international youth media contest (video, photos, and slogans), conducted as part of the My European City campaign in 15 European countries.
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Speaking about the Children’s Hospital of the Future Project, Mr. Maksymchuk recalled that the creation of the All-Ukrainian Center to Protect Mothers’ and Children’s Health had been initiated by the state. “The Foundation supported the government’s initiative and called upon the community and business to join this great national project,” he said.
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In course of the event, Mr. Jerzy Onuch announced the start of a new joint action by the Polish Institute in Kyiv and Ukrainian Center for Museum Development – a competition for Ukrainioan museum workers, prepared to implement innovative Ukrainian-Polish projects. The details will soon be published at the Museum Portal of Ukraine.
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“On May 20, our thoughts were with you, feeling the warm and festive atmosphere of the Forum even from far away, picturing to ourselves the joy of the winners and emotions of the audience. We are happy to see that the festival of doing good is spreading around, and the number of good deeds grows.
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It will be held as a part of Metropolitan Donetsk city club’s project, winning a grant from Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation in this year’s Program to Support Small Culture and Art Projects.
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The winners of the Third Doing Good Starts with You Charitable Projects Competition are 12 children’s and junior groups from 10 Ukraine’s oblasts. Another 20 projects became its laureates. All winners and laureates received diplomas and money prizes: UAH 5,000 for the first place, 3,000 for the second, 2,000 for the third, and 1,000 for the laureates.
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Greeting the guests, Mrs. Yushchenko thanked them for their interest to Ukrainian cinema. “We are happy to see that Ukrainian cinema is developing and becomes known globally,” she said. “We are proud that this year, for the first time in Cannes Film Festival history, a Ukrainian film entered the competition program.”
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Students of the History Education Institute at the National Drahomanov Pedagogical Institute and Kyiv Polytechnic Institute were working together with the Foundation members.
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The Foundation donated 20 book sets for awarding the winners, which include such books as The Man, Ukraine’s Hetmans, and Personalities. The awards ceremony was held at the Museum of the Outstanding Figures of Ukrainian Culture: Lesia Ukrayinka, Mykola Lysenko, Panas Saksahansky, and Mykhaylo Starytsky.
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The Kyiv premiere of Longing for the Future, timed to coincide with the International Mother’s Day, will be performed May 14 at the Kyiv National Academic Operetta Theater. Its major goal is drawing public attention to the problem of labor migration of the Ukrainians.
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The Forum took place May 6-7, 2010. Over Ukraine 3000 Foundation representatives of the government, business, foundations, and mass media along with international investment and donor institutions, interested in implementing innovative social projects.
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The Kyiv premiere of Longing for the Future was organized by Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation and timed to coincide with the International Mother’s Day. It will be performed May 14 at the Kyiv National Academic Operetta Theater.
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In course of negotiations with the Center for the Disabled management an agreement was made on cooperation between this clinic and Ukraine 3000 Foundation on medical programs.
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Traditionally, at the forum the winners of the Doing Good Starts with You competition will be announced and awarded, and the Light of Doing Good honorary award handed over for considerable support for children’s charitable initiatives and active participation in their implementation.
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In course of the event folk masters, experts in making traditional Yavoriv toys, will give master classes for children. They will tell them about the history and importance of this wooden toys which is more than 400 years old and reveal the secrets of its technology and making. The kids will have a go at painting wooden pieces.
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This year’s Cannes Film Festival will take place May 12-23. It is most significant for Ukraine, since for the first time the festival’s program features two Ukrainian films. Among the 18 films in competition is Serhiy Loznytsia’s Shchastia moye [My Happiness] (Ukraine, Germany, the Netherlands), and in the Special program – Otar Ioseliani’s Shantrapa [Hoodlums] (Ukraine, France).
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Meeting participants discussed strategic issues regarding the organization of the Philanthropist 2010 National Contest, and also of conducting the awards ceremony within the framework of the Philanthropic Ukraine Congress. The sides agreed on continuing their cooperation on the contest’s new format and attracting business partners to the Philanthropy Week.
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