“Launching the Doing Good Starts with You program last September, we realized how timely and important it was for the Ukrainian society,” Mrs. Yushchenko said in her speech. “We are certain that charity is one of the major elements in children’s upbringing. The need to help others, respect for one’s elders, responsibility for one’s community, conscious attitude toward the environment become a part of a child’s personality, if you instill them from her early years.”
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The winners of the Museum Event of the Year Third All-Ukrainian Action and Fourth Program to Support Museum Workers were greeted and awarded by Mrs. Yushchenko and Messrs. Maksymchuk and Aliyev.
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May 19, 2008, the Children’s Hospital of the Future Charitable Foundation received the official decision of the Architecture and Town Planning Council at the Ministry of Regions Development, Housing and Building of Ukraine.
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Mrs. Kateryna said that the Ukraine 3000 Foundation had initiated the creation of a single rehabilitation space – an integrated program embracing all people with special needs. “While this program is being developed, our Foundation has made a decision to earmark UAH 100,000 for the needs of the visually handicapped people, especially children,” she said.
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The Fund members cleaned up a part of the preserve territory, removing the garbage from mass grave sites of Ukrainian intelligentsia executed in 1937.
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Welcoming the guests, Mrs. Yushchenko thanked them for their interest to Ukraine and expressed her hope that the event would help them to learn more about Ukraine and its cinema. “We do have something to offer,” she said. “Talented actors, technicians, cameramen – professionals who are now working at world’s best sets. We have great locations and a great desire to take part in co-productions.” Mrs. Kateryna added that Ukraine’s beautiful and sometimes tragic history could become an inexhaustible source of stories waiting to be made into a movie.
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“We are happy that Ukraine has finally got its own pavilion at the Cannes Festival and a chance to present its attainments along with future projects,” Mrs. Yushchenko said. “We invite everybody to cooperate with Ukraine, since what we have to offer is not only great stories and ideas for new films, but the experience of Ukrainian professionals.”
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Mrs. Yushchenko took a tour of the pavilion and familiarized herself with its work. She talked to representatives of Ukrainian film studios and producers, presented at the pavilion, and also journalists covering the Cannes Film Festival.
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This year all first prize winners received presents from Ukraine 3000 Foundation. Coordinator with the Cultural Programs Department Antonina Muzhanovska greeted the winners and all contestants on behalf of the Foundation.
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The winners will be announced and awarded prizes May 23, 2008, at the Doing Good Starts with You All-Ukrainian Conference, concluding the pilot stage of the charitable program.
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The results of the contest will be reviewed and announced by the Day of the Memory of Holodomor Victims (last Saturday of November). Best works will be displayed at a show.
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The main goal of the Contest is revealing true information on the twentieth century’s tragedy to the people of Ukraine, highlighting the Holodomor in mass media, and involving broad public into commemorating the Holodomor victims in all Ukraine’s regions.
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Touch and See is the first photo exhibition for the blind in Ukraine. It displays 30 3D photos from Yuri Bilak’s “Ukrainians” series. Every color photo is coupled with its tactile replica, a transparent embossed file made of polymers.
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This event was part of the First Ukraine – European Union Interparliamentary Dialog Interparliamentary Conference of Friendship Groups of Ukraine and EU Countries.
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A number of issues were discussed related to the film industry development in Lithuania and Ukraine. Minister Chrivinskas spoke about state support to the cinema and the present situation in the Lithuanian film industry. Mrs. Kateryna, in her turn, described the activities of the Ukrainian Film Foundation, created by the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation’s initiative, and its current and future projects aimed at creating favorable conditions for Ukrainian and joint films production.
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Mrs. Kateryna Yushchenko told Mrs. Adamkene about the Ukraine 3000 Foundation’s activities, in part, its cultural, medical, and educational programs.
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Mrs. Kateryna Yushchenko Meets with Experts and Winners of the First Stage of the Grants Program for Small Cultural and Art Projects
In course of the meeting, the experts gave their evaluation of the project submitted to the contest, noting the importance of non-governmental support for cultural projects, since there are no other grant programs of this kind in Ukraine. Representatives of the winning organizations presented their projects to be implemented with the participation of Ukraine 3000 Foundation and took part in their discussion.
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