Easter greeting and appeal of the UUARC (04/11/99)

Easter greeting and appeal of the UUARC

Dear Friends and Benefactors of the UUARC!

Greetings from the executive committee and board of directors of the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee during this most holy Easter Season!

We would like to express our deepest gratitude for your past generosity, while simultaneously appealing to you for help for those who need it most - the orphans and the elderly of Ukraine.

During 1998 the UUARC sent eight containers of humanitarian goods to Ukraine. The aid reached the Kyiv, Lviv, Mykoaiv and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts in Ukraine, as well as ethnic Ukrainians in Kazakstan and Romania. When floods ravaged the Transcarpatian region of Ukraine and Romania, we almost immediately sent a container to Mukachiv with your donations and cash gifts.

During the Christmas holidays, thanks to your generous response to our St. Nicholas campaign, 1,709 orphaned children in Odesa, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk and western regions of Ukraine received a visit and gifts from St. Nicholas - some for the first time ever. In an effort to introduce other orphans from the eastern oblasts to our suppressed age-old Christmas traditions, 168 children from orphanages and group homes were sent to western Ukrainian families to share their "Rizdvo."

We sincerely thank you for making all of this possible, and hope that, in counting your blessings, you will remember those so much less fortunate!

Christ has Risen!

Truly He has Risen!

UUARC Executive Board

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