UUARC sends container to Zakarpattia

PHILADELPHIA - A 40-foot-long container left the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee, Inc. (UUARC) headquarters in Philadelphia on June 29 headed for Uzhhorod in the Zakarpattia region of Ukraine. The container held 715 parcels of new and slightly used clothing, sneakers, shoes, boots, bicycles and wheelchairs that the UUARC had collected from generous donors for the victims of recent floods.

Major contributors to this effort among others, the Children of Chornobyl in Cherry Hill, N.J., St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church in Trenton, N.J., and the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church in Reading, Pa. Many volunteers also came to UUARC headquarters in northeast Philadelphia to fold and pack the clothing into boxes. A grant from Operation Provide Hope of Counterpart International covered the freight for this container. It will be received and distributed by the director of the UUARC's Lviv office, Andrij Dyda, and Pavlo Fedaka, president of Prosvita in Uzhhorod.

In May a container full of irregular new clothing was shipped in cooperation with and under the generous auspices of Brother's Brother International of Pittsburgh to the UUARC office in Kyiv.

The UUARC's next container is scheduled to arrive in Lviv in time for distribution to the various schools for the beginning of the school year. The committee will welcome donations throughout the summer for this shipment.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, July 15, 2001, No. 28, Vol. LXIX

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