CCRF board reviews its strategy for coming year (10/20/02)

CCRF board reviews its strategy for coming year

SHORT HILLS, N.J. - Members of the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund's board of directors met on September 14 for a working meeting to review the fund's hospital partnerships and to plan its humanitarian strategy for the coming year. Present were: Chairman of the Board Dr. Zenon Matkiwsky, Orest Fedash, Nadia Matkiwsky, Joseph Vena, Myron Holubiak and Leonard Mazur, and CCRF Executive Director Alexander Kuzma.

This fall, CCRF welcomed three new members to its board: Mr. Holubiak is the chief operating officer at Physician Health Net and the former president of Roche Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Mazur is the president of Genesis Pharmaceuticals and the president of the Ukrainian American Professional and Businesspersons' Association of New York /New Jersey.

The most recent member to join the Board of Directors as of October 1 is Melanne Verveer, the chairman of the Vital Voices Partnership for Women and the former chief of staff to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Since 1990, CCRF has completed 30 medical airlifts and 12 sea shipments to Ukraine. The fund has established long-term partnerships with hospitals in 12 oblasts of Ukraine. For the 2002-2003 year, CCRF is planning a series to training conferences on infant cardiac surgery to help save more of the thousands of Ukrainian children born each year with congenital heart defects. The fund is also opening its ninth neonatal intensive care unit at the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Children's Hospital with state-of-the-art technology provided by the Austrian-based firm NZ Techno.

Tax-deductible donations to CCRF may be forwarded to: CCRF, 272 Old Short Hills Road. Short Hills, NJ 07078. For further information, please call (973) 376-5140 or consult the fund's website at www.childrenofchornobyl.org.

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