UUARC appeals for Christmas donations

PHILADELPHIA - The United Ukrainian American Relief Committee Inc. has appealed to the community to support its traditional Christmas campaign.

Charitable donations are targeted for Ukraine to provide shoes for orphans and disabled children in state institutions, financial aid for the elderly because of an inadequate social safety net, and assistance for the unemployed who receive no benefits from the state.

The UUARC must also devote resources to impoverished Ukrainian families in Romania and in parts of the Russian Federation where millions of former exiles still live.

Thanks to the public's generosity, the first stages of the Eye Glass Project, intended to provide eye examinations and prescription glasses for orphans and neglected children in Ukraine, is proceeding according to plan.

For information on making donations, please contact UUARC, Inc., 1206 Cottman Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19111. Phone: (215) 728-1630, fax: (215) 728-1631.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, January 11, 1998, No. 2, Vol. LXVI

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