Category: Life
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Knitting for Ukraine
The knitting club is located in a very picturesque, small town in Lincolnshire, where most of the beautiful old buildings are built traditionally, of stone. A group of wonderful women from the club gather at Stamford Unity Centre. As I approach the building, I notice a piece of white paper with my name on it,…
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100th anniversary of Ukrainian Youth Organisation
The Ukrainian Youth Association – CYM (SUM – pronounced ‘soom’) originated as an underground organisation in 1925, in response to the defeat in the national liberation struggle of 1918–1920. At that time, Ukraine was squeezed between four states: Bolshevik Russia, Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia, and was likely to become part of another country. However, SUM…
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MoveUkraine: an organisation that helps rebuild lives
John Shmorhun is a US-born son of Ukrainian migrants from Slovyansk and Lviv. After serving 10 years as an officer and pilot in the US Navy, John worked internationally, including in Ukraine, for DuPont de Nemours for 20 years before founding a large agricultural company in Ukraine in 2009. His wife Patricia Shmorhun-Hawrylyshyn, is the…