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ADOPTED CHILDREN: CHRISTMAS HIGHLIGHTS THE BLESSING OF HIS ADOPTED SON FROM ODESSA, UKRAINE By Trudy Stewart, Journal Staff, The Stevens Point Journal, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA, Wednesday, Dec 25, 2002

ADOPTED CHILDREN: "A LEAP OF FAITH" Sacred mission led to their adoption of two Ukrainian children By JACQUI KLUTH, Whitefish Pilot, Whitefish, Montana, January 17, 2003

ADOPTED CHILDREN: OVERSEAS ADOPTION IS DREAM COME TRUE FOR SOUTH DAKOTA FAMILY Larry and Dwan Tjeerdsma recently adopted two Ukrainian sisters By DeAnn McClure, P&D Correspondent, Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan Yankton, SD, July 28, 2003

ADOPTION: THE RANDOLPH'S ADOPT 2-YEAR-OLD UKRAINIAN "ZACKERY" WHO FINDS LOVE, HOME IN TRINITY, ALABAMA By Clyde L. Stancil, Daily Staff Writer, The Decatur Daily News Decatur, Alabama, Sunday, April 27, 2003

ADOPTIONS: AND BABY MAKES ONE Bren Hoadley spent thousands of dollars trying to adopt a foreign child. Now she has an empty stroller and a message for other would-be parents Adoption agency stopped working with Ukraine out of frustration with its bureaucracy By Margaret Philp, Social Policy Reporter The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada Saturday, April 19, 2003 - Page F6

AMERICAN UKRAINIAN MEDICAL PROJECT Advancing International Healthcare Technology A volunteer team of medical workers and computer professionals. There are opportunities for more volunteers. Russell and Theresa Ayers, Seattle, Washington The mission is to improve heathcare in Ukraine and America through on-site training, technical exchanges, open communications and information technology. Please, visit their website for more detailed information

The Association of Famines Researchers In Ukraine

BASEBALL: HOLLAND, MICHIGAN LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAMS HELPING TO OUTFIT UKRAINE YOUTH By Gary Brower, The Holland Sentinel On Line Holland, Michigan, January 10, 2003

"Between Hitler and Stalin....Ukraine In World War II" A New Documentary Movie To Be Released In The Summer of 2001 Ukrainian Canadian Research & Documentation Centre

BLEYZER FOUNDATION MISSION STATEMENT Supporting the Successful Transition of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) Countries into Healthy, Democratic, Market Economics Michael Bleyzer, Chairman Kyiv, Ukraine and Houston,Texas

Building Private, Non-Profit, Self-Help, Voluntary Organizations In Ukraine

CHERNOBYL: EARLY LUNG CANCER TEST SOUGHT Being developed by doctors looking after Ukraine's Chernobyl's cancer victims BBC NEWS, Health, London, UK, Tuesday, 28 January, 2003

CHERNOBYL: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH Bringing children damaged by the Chernobyl disaster to Ireland Belfast Telegraph; Belfast, Ireland, UK, Jan 07, 2004

CHERNOBYL: MOURNERS IN UKRAINE MARK CHERNOBYL'S 18TH ANNIVERSARY By Anna Melnichuk, Associated Press Writer AP, Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, April 26, 2004

CHERNOBYL: ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE MARK 18TH (y.2004) ANNIVERSARY OF CHERNOBYL DISASTER AT OVERNIGHT SERVICE IN KIEV, UKRAINE Agence France-Presse (AFP), Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Apr 26, 2004

CHERNOBYL: THOUSANDS MARCH IN UKRAINE ON THE EVE OF CHERNOBYL'S 18TH ANNIVERSARY, NUCLEAR REACTOR BLEW ON APRIL 26, 1986 Associated Press, Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, April 24, 2004

CHERNOBYL, UKRAINE: NEW LIFE TRICKLES BACK TO CHERNOBYL By Simon Ostrovsky, Staff Writer, The Moscow Times Moscow, Russia, Monday, Apr. 26, 2004

CHILD VAGRANCY FALLING ACCORDING TO OFFICIALS By Dana Liss, Staff Writer, Kyiv Post, Kyiv, Ukraine, 10 May 2002

CHILDREN: EASING CHILDREN'S PAIN Sunny Wave Charity Foundation in Kyiv, Ukraine James Wood, Leader-Post, The Leader-Post (Regina) Canada.com Network Regina, SK, Canada, Mon, Jan 5, 2003

CHILDREN OF CHORNOBYL RELIEF FUND, INC. The Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund is a humanitarian organization established to protect and save the lives of children confronting the human legacy of the world's worst environmental disaster. It serves as an informational, resource bridge for the United States, Ukraine and the world community The Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund is committed to the worldwide preservation of humankind in a spirit of charity and goodwill, making Chornobyl an example never to be repeated

CHILDREN: UKRAINIAN BABY MARIYKA'S BATTLE TO BREATHE By Lindsay Fortado, Daily News Writer, New York Daily News New York, NY, Thursday, April 1, 2004

CHILDREN: UKRAINIAN CHILD'S FIGHT TO BREATHE AND TALK Marika Tkachyk Now in New York City for Surgery, Assistance Needed Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund (CCRF) Short Hills, New Jersey, Thursday, April 1, 2004

CHORNOBYL CHILDREN: WANTING TO HELP, A WORLD AWAY IN UKRAINE Young Adults from the Woonsocket, Rhode Island Ukrainian Orthodox Church By Michael Holtzman, Staff Writer, The Call, WoonsocketCall.com Woonsocket, Rhode Island, USA, July 27, 2003

CHORNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT: U.S. Groups Working to Aid Chornobyl Victims, Especially Children By Julie Moffett Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, RFE/RL Washington, D.C. December 13, 2002

Counterpart International - Community and Humanitarian Assistance Program, CHAP

DISABLED & VULNERABLE ORPHANS OF UKRAINE (DVOU) Organization Forms to Assist Orphans In Ukraine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 23, 2002

THE DZHERELO CENTRE IN LVIV OPENS NEW WING For nine years the "Dzherelo Centre" in Lviv has provided programs for Ukrainian children with special needs January, 2003

FATHER' CARE--BATKIVSKA TURBOTA Father's Care is a non-profit, non-sectarian humanitarian organization that since 1999 has been involved in giving hope and a future to some of the 20,000 street children in Kyiv, Ukraine. They want to open "The Ark" Rehab Center

"Folk Art" Magazine The National Union Of Folk Art Masters Of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

FAMILY BUSINESS LEADS GARY GOODENOUGH TO UKRAINE AND AN EUROPEAN ADVENTURE Daughter and Son-In-Law Adopt a Baby In Kyiv, Ukraine Rene A. Rosencrantz, The Swartz Creek News, The Flint Journal Flint, Michigan, Sunday, November 24, 2002

GENETICS: PROGRAMMING BABIES: AMERICAN DISCOVERY WITH ROOTS IN KHARKIV, UKRAINE World's first Institute of Reproductive Genetics in Chicago Not Kharkiv By Petro Matviyenko, Kharkiv; The Day Weekly Digest in English Kyiv, Ukraine, Mar 2, 2004

HAND IN HAND ORGANIZATION HELPS WITH INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS-CURRENTLY WORKING WITH ORPHANS IN UKRAINE, RUSSIA, CHINA, HAITI, GUATEMALA AND THE PHILLIPPINES By Robin R. Plasterer, Staff Writer, Post and Mail Columbia City, Indiana March 14, 2003

Harvard Establishes Three New Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Ukrainian Studies

HELP FEED A CHILD.COM Creates Monthly Funding to Support the Rivne Regional Charitable Fund in Rivne, Ukraine

Help Us Help The Children/Priyateli Ditey

HIV/AIDS: "BUILDING MEDIA PARTNERSHIPS IN UKRAINE, RUSSIA AND THE U.S. TO COMBAT HIV/AIDS" TransAtlantic Partners Against AIDS (TPAA), Meeting at the YES Network NY, NY, Jan 16, 2004

HIV/AIDS: EUROPE HAS ROLE IN AVERTING HIV TRAGEDY OPINION By Rian van de Braak and David Veazey, The St. Petersburg Times St. Petersburg, Russia, Nov 21, 2003

HIV/AIDS: GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS SUSPENDS PAYMENTS IN UKRAINE CITING POOR MANAGEMENT By David Brown, Washington Post Staff Writer The Washington Post, Washington, D.C. Saturday, January 31, 2004; Page A16

HIV/AIDS: THE GLOBAL FUND ACTS TO SECURE RESULTS FOR ITS HIV/AIDS PREVENTION AND CARE PROGRAMS IN UKRAINE Global Fund, Geneva, Switzerland, January 30, 2004

HIV/AIDS: "LET'S STOP AIDS" UKRAINIAN ANTI-AIDS CAMPAIGN Press Release, Elena Franchuk Foundation "ANTI-AIDS" Kyiv, Ukraine, Thur, Jan 15, 2004

HIV/AIDS: MAJOR UKRAINIAN BUSINESSMAN, VIKTOR PINCHUK AND PRESIDENT KUCHMA'S DAUGHTER, OLENA FRANCHUK, REPRESENT UKRAINE AT HIV/AIDS MEDIA CAMPAIGN MEETING IN NEW YORK Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 16 Jan 04 BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Jan 16, 2004

[HIV/AIDS] OLENA FRANCHUK STARTS A PUBLIC CAREER? [President Kuchma's Daughter and Wife of Oligarch Viktor Pinchuk] By Leonid Amchuk, Ukrayinska Pravda Online, Kyiv, Ukraine, Dec.1, 2003

HIV/AIDS: ROUNDTABLE MEETING AT UN LAUNCHES A GLOBAL MEDIA AIDS INITIATIVE Elena Franchuk and Viktor Pinchuk From Ukraine Presented "Let's Stop AIDS" TransAtlantic Partners Against AIDS (TPAA), NY, NY, Jan 16, 2004

HIV/AIDS: RUSSIA AND UKRAINE 'NAIVE ABOUT AIDS' By Steven Eke, BBC Russian affairs analyst, BBC, UK, November 16, 2003

HIV:AIDS: TRANSATLANTIC PARTNERS AGAINST AIDS ORGANIZATION TO OPEN OFFICE IN UKRAINE SAYS PRES JOHN TEDSTROM Interfax-Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 16, 2004

HIV/AIDS: TRANSATLANTIC PARTNERS AGAINST AIDS (TPAA) MEETS WITH THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE LEONID KUCHMA TransAtlantic Partners Against AIDS (TPAA), NY, NY, Sept 22, 2003

HIV/AIDS: UKRAINE ANNOUNCES HIV/AIDS FUNDING FOR 2004-2008 FIFTH NATIONAL HIV PREVENTION PROGRAMME Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 28 Nov 03 BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Nov 28, 2003

HIV/AIDS: UKRAINE APPEALS TO WEST FOR HELP TO FIGHT AIDS By Elizabeth Piper, Reuters, Friday, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 13, 2004

HIV/AIDS: UKRAINE LOOSES CONTROL OF MAJOR AIDS FUNDS Number of Major Management and Governance Issues Cited Including Lack of Clarity of Internal Processes and Procedures Inside Ukraine (IU) Newsletter, February 1, 2004

HIV/AIDS: UKRAINE SLAMS GLOBAL FUND FOR CUTTING OFF HIV/AIDS SUPPORT Agence France-Presse, Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb 13, 2004

HIV/AIDS: UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT ACCEPTS $60 MILLION WORLD BANK LOAN TO FIGHT AIDS Associated Press, Kiev, Ukraine, December 3, 2003

HIV/AIDS: UKRAINE SURPRISED AT AIDS AID SUSPENSION By Oksana Omelchenko, Den, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian 5 Feb 04 BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Feb 07, 2004

HIV/AIDS: UKRAINE TO SPEND OVER 162M DOLLARS ON COMBATING HIV AND AIDS IN 2004-2008 Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Russian, 4 Mar 04 BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Mar 04, 2004

HIV/AIDS: UKRAINIAN VICE PREMIER TABACHNYK MEETS WITH PRESIDENT OF TRANSATLANTIC PARTNERS AGAINST AIDS JOHN TEDSTROM UKRINFORM, Kyiv, Ukraine, January 21, 2004

HIV-AIDS: U.S. URGES INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO BOOST EFFORTS TO COMBAT HIV-AIDS IN UKRAINE AP Online, Kiev, Ukraine, Mar 23, 2003

HUMAN INTEREST STORIES RELATED TO UKRAINE "Personal Stories That Tug At The Human Heart;" About Artists, Writers, Children, War Refugees, Parents, Immigrants, And Much More

International Christian University (ICU), Kyiv, Ukraine

JOBS: MIGRANT WORKER'S TRAGEDY HITS HOME IN UKRAINE, They were a typical Soviet family. By Alan Quartly, BBC correspondent in Cherniyiv, Ukraine  BBC NEWS, UK, Monday, May 10, 2004

JOBS: FOR SOME UKRAINIANS, A TOUGH LAND OF HOPE Anna, from Lvov is now a cleaning lady in Poland, to escape a seemingly hopeless economic situation at home in Ukraine By Richard Bernstein, NYT, International Herald Tribune France, March 1, 2004

JOBS: UKRAINIAN MIGRANT WORKERS TELL OF FEAR AND SUFFERING "Gone West-The Harsh Reality of Ukrainians at Work in the UK" TUC report reveals grim exploitation of Ukrainians by Felicity Lawrence, Consumer Affairs Correspondent The Guardian, United Kingdom; Mar 09, 2004

KLM AIRLINES HELPS CANCER RESEARCH IN UKRAINE Kyiv Post Daily (Issue 208); Kyiv, Ukraine; Friday, November 01, 2002

MEDICAL SUPPORT: UKRAINIAN LADY RECEIVES SURGERIES IN COLORADO, USA TO MEND FACIAL DEFORMITY Colorado doctor helps provide normalcy to Ukraine woman born with massive facial tumor By Bazi Kanani, 9News, The Denver Post Denver, Colorado, April 16, 2003

MENNONITE CENTRE IN UKRAINE Molochansk/Halbstadt, Ukraine; Toronto, Canada Providing humanitarian services which are community based, provided without discrimination, foster local initiative, and are sustainable, while interpreting and commemorating the Mennonite past in Ukraine.

WORLD'S LARGEST AIRCRAFT ANTONOV-225, FROM UKRAINE, TO BECOME A SUPERHERO FOR KIDS WORLDWIDE, Will Airlift 80,000 Shoebox Gifts From Kids in America to Kids in Africa Under Operation Christmas Child, Embassy of Ukraine, Washington, D.C., December 4, 2002

ORPHANS' AID SOCIETY (OAS) You can become a sponsor for a Ukrainian orphan child in need INFORMATION: Orphans' Aid Society (OAS) Little Neck, New York, April 2004

ORPHANS FROM UKRAINE AND LAWYER MICHELLE MACKEY Congressman Ramstand (R-Minn) Staffer Working Hard to End Children's Pain Cheyenne Hopkins, THE HILL, Washington, D.C., October 9, 2002

ORPHANAGES: ASSISTANCE TO ORPHANAGES CONTINUES IN UKRAINE Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA South Bound Brook, New Jersey, February 3, 2004

ORPHANS IN UKRAINE: ELAINE CHOMYSZAK FROM UNITED KINGDOM ELAINE RETURNS TO VISIT ORPHANS Hull Daily Mail, Blundells Corner, Beverley Road, Hull HU3 1XS, UK 28 October 2002

TO UKRAINE, WITH LOVE, Two Thousand Ukrainian Orphans By Ellen Kanner, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, December 16, 2002

PETRENKO'S "VIKTORY FOR KIDS" RAISES OVER $ 100,000 FOR CHILDREN OF CHORNOBYL Viktor Petrenko Ukrainian Ice-Skating Champion Benefit Performance-2001 The Viktor Petrenko Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is Created in Petrenko's Hometown of Odessa, Ukraine

RIVNE REGIONAL CHARITY FUND HAPPY FUTURE FOR CHILDREN OF UKRAINE Rivne, Ukraine The fund helps orphans, children without parents' guardianship and invalids, children-victims of Chornobyl, children of poor and large families, socially unprotected and old people for consolidation of kindness, charity respect and benevolence to children in the society

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL MILES PROGRAM PROVIDES TICKET FROM UKRAINE TO CHICAGO, USA FOR UKRAINIAN GIRL OLHA SHELEMEKH WHO NEEDED SPECIAL HEART SURGERY Washington, D.C..March 18, 2003

SEX TRADE: POOR UKRAINIAN GIRLS TRICKED INTO SEX TRADE Agence France Presse (AFP), Kiev, Ukraine, Jan 31, 2004

SMOLOSKYP, INC. An Outstanding Human Rights And Publishing Organization Osyp Zinkewych, Chairman Kyiv, Ukraine

SOS--SEEKING HELP FOR NEEDY CHILDREN IN UKRAINE "Syntez" Kharkiv Regional Charity Association Assistance to Unfortunate Children in the Kharkiv Region: Orphans, Refugees, Homeless Children and Other Needy Children Kharkiv, Ukraine

FOR SURVIVAL, SUPPORT FOR UKRAINIAN PENSIONERS A Ukrainian Charity Supported by "American Friends of 'For Survival'"

TB: OFFICIALS DOWNPLAY CONCERNS OF UKRAINE'S TB EPIDEMIC AP Online, Kiev, Ukraine, Mar 24, 2004

Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentary Centre - Harvest of Despair Documentary

Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, Inc. (UCCA) The Voice Of A Community Michael Sawkiw, Jr., President New York, Washingtion, D.C., Kyiv, Ukraine

Ukrainian Famine Foundation of the USA

Ukrainian Medical Student Fellowship Program

MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION (MDA) Lviv, Ukraine The Ukrainian MDA is a non-governmental and non-profit organization. The Association is run only by disabled people from their homes and a small number of volunteers

UKRAINIAN ORPHANED CHILDREN'S FUND OF PHILADELPHIA, (UOCFP) Letter from Steve Vetterlein, Founder of UOCFP, December 23, 2002

U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF) "Building Peace And Prosperity Through Shared Democratic Values" Nadia K. McConnell, President Washington, D.C. and Kyiv, Ukraine

The Washington Group (TWG) Cultural Fund "Promoting Ukrainian Music, Art, and Culture" Washington, D.C.