Canada Ukraine Foundation – of which UCC Manitoba Provincial Council is a member – has implemented a program to help seniors in Eastern Ukraine impacted by the Covid-19 crisis. If you want to help, follow the link at the end of the article.
Canada Ukraine Foundation – of which UCC Manitoba Provincial Council is a member – has implemented a program to help seniors in Eastern Ukraine impacted by the Covid-19 crisis. If you want to help, follow the link at the end of the article.
On October 5, Ukrainian Canadian Congress – Manitoba Provincial Council loaded a container of over 50 high-quality donated hospital beds and mattresses plus gurneys and physiotherapy beds destined for Ukraine. With our partners from International Hope Canada, this is the fourth container of medical equipment UCC-MPC has sent to Ukraine. The beds will be distributed to military hospitals in Kharkiv and Kyiv, as well as to a general hospital in Yaremche which provides long term care to veterans. The retail value of the load is over $75,000.
At the end of September, a container full of medical supplies sent by UCC-MPC to Kharkiv region in Eastern Ukraine arrived.
Below are some photographs of the equipment that was sent being unloaded in Ukraine, as well as thank you letters about the charitable assistance.
On June 3, 2017 a container of medical supplies to assist wounded and displaced victims of Russian aggression was sent to Ukraine by the UCC-MPC Euromaidan Committee. The bulk of the medical equipment was collected and donated by International Hope Canada. Costs for shipping the container to Ukraine were covered by a $5000 donation from the Ukrainian Catholic Women’s League of Canada branch at St. Anne’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Winnipeg
Ukrainian Canadian Congress is our community’s umbrella organization. Please be generous with your time and with your financial support so that we may continue working for the benefit of the Ukrainian community. Вашу пожертву на розбудову Конґресу Українців Канади можете пoсилати на вище подану адресу. Це наша спільна громадська надбудова.
UCC-MPC’s container of supplies for hospitals in Ukraine has been loaded on a train and is heading for Montreal where it will be loaded on a ship headed for Ukraine. While in Toronto, volunteers were able to add a number of additional high value items including 5 electronic patient lifters, 16 mattresses and a number of boxes full of medical supplies. One photograph shows how the container looked leaving Winnipeg, and then how it looked before it got sealed and sent.Thanks to all volunteers that helped, to our donors, to International Hope Canada, and the professional transport people who will ensure that this valuable assistance makes it Ukraine!
On Saturday June 11, 2016 UCC-MPC Euromaidan Committee met its commitment of sending a container of medical equipment to Ukraine. The container was filled with mostly fully functioning modern hospital beds, which had been obtained and refurbished by International Hope Canada. The container made its way to Toronto. While in there, volunteers were able to add a number of additional high value items including 5 electronic patient lifters, 16 mattresses and a number of boxes full of medical supplies. One photograph shows how the container looked leaving Winnipeg, and then how it looked before it got sealed and sent.
On May 18, 2017 the world marks the 73rd anniversary of the 1944 deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar – the indigenous people of the Crimean Peninsula – population from their homeland to far-flung regions of the Soviet Union. This criminal act of ethnic cleansing was initiated on the orders of Soviet leader.
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UCC-MBC appreciates for all the support these organizations have been giving for all past years!
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