UCCA opens Kyiv bureau

by Tamara Gallo
Ukrainian Congress Committee of America

NEW YORK - The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America has received two donations totaling $45,000 towards its work in Ukraine. The benefactors, responding to a UCCA appeal, include Arkadi Mulak-Yatzkivsky of Los Angeles, who donated $20,000, and an anonymous donor who contributed $25,000.

The donations will cover the operating costs for the UCCA's newly opened Kyiv Office, which is staffed by a citizen of Ukraine, for at least a two-year period, as well as help alleviate expenses related to the UCCA's 2002 pre-election campaign.

The UCCA executive board had passed a motion at its regular board meeting on December 16, 2001, to create a UCCA bureau in Ukraine's capital.

The UCCA Kyiv Office's immediate responsibility is to carry out "The Power of One" civic education program, which promotes greater citizen involvement in civic decision-making by encouraging voter participation in the upcoming parliamentary elections, and educates the people about their inalienable rights as citizens of a democratic country.

Following the elections, the bureau, located at Myzeinyi Provulok No. 8; (telephone, 044-228-4580) will function similarly to the Ukrainian National Information Service in Washington by monitoring and disseminating information and by serving as the UCCA's voice in Kyiv. Additionally, the Kyiv office will assist the UCCA's Council on Aid to Ukrainians, which conducts humanitarian aid projects.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, March 10, 2002, No. 10, Vol. LXX

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