This “musical tribute to Ukraine and her people” raised funds for a joint project between The California Association to Aid Ukraine and Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund. These two important organizations are combining efforts to support the advanced training of medical doctors from Ukraine for the Future Children’s Hospital of Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Betrayed since birth by deformed legs that can’t support her, Ukrainian Nataliya Nikolenko gets around on her belly, pushing herself with her hands on something that resembles a mechanic's dolly used to get under cars. Any other position brings pain. Now, she is in Miami looking to fulfill her dream.
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As informed earlier by the media, six months ago an all-Ukrainian action began to support the construction of the hospital of the future, Mothers’ and Children’s Center. The idea, initiated by the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund, was unanimously approved by the Third Pediatrists’ Congress held last October in Kyiv. The President of Ukraine issued a decree on the need to found this center. Minister for Health Yuri Poliachenko and Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund Kateryna Yushchenko laid a symbolic capsule at the future construction site in Feofaniya.
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The team of physicians, administrators and construction experts came to see our facilities as an example of how to design and run a children’s hospital. They toured the operating rooms, Ambulatory Care Building, Hematology/Oncology unit and the NICU to understand what would be important to consider in terms of space and equipment when they design similar facilities.
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Raised in Chicago by her Ukrainian émigré family, Kateryna Yushchenko always cherished her heritage. Here, the wife of Ukraine’s President talks candidly about the dangers her family faces in a fledgling democracy.
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