Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund receives foundation grant (02/27/05)

Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund receives foundation grant

SHORT HILLS, N.J. - The Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund, an award-winning charity that has been serving Ukrainian children since 1989, recently announced that it has received a grant of $35,000 from the Maria Hulai-Lion Foundation. The Brooklyn-based foundation allocated the grant for the purchase of medical equipment, as well as general support for CCRF's humanitarian activities.

The grant was presented to Dr. Zenon Matkiwsky, the president and co-founder of the Children of Chornobyl, in the presence of two officers of the Hulai-Lion Foundation, Sergey Davidenko and Volodymyr Maichenko.

Dr. Matkiwsky expressed his gratitude to the foundation on behalf of the board of directors of CCRF. "This gift will help us to deliver state-of-the-art equipment to one of our partner hospitals in eastern Ukraine, where the needs of children are especially urgent," said Dr. Matkiwsky. The foundation officers selected the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund after a careful review of the organization's track record.

Since 1989, the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund has delivered over $51 million worth of medical technology, hospital supplies and medicine to hospitals and orphanages in 19 oblasts of Ukraine. The fund was recently hailed by the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's most widely read English-language newspaper, as one of the most effective charities serving Ukraine. In addition to its 31 airlifts, CCRF recently launched its 15th sea shipment with supplies destined for hospitals in Chernihiv, Lviv, Lutsk, Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk. Many of the fund's partner hospitals have achieved dramatic reductions in infant mortality and improvements in cancer remission rates.

Tax-deductible donations may be sent to the fund's national office at 272 Old Short Hills Road, Short Hills, NJ 07078. For more information readers may call (973) 376-5140, or visit the fund's website at www.childrenofchornobyl.org.

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