Kobzar Society receives grant from Maria Hulai-Lion Foundation

LEHIGHTON, Pa. - The Kobzar Society, a 501 (c) 3 charitable corporation that provides computer technology to youth in Ukraine, recently announced that it has received a grant of $30,000 from the Maria Hulai-Lion Foundation of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Orest J. Hanas, president and co-founder of Kobzar Society, together with directors Eugene Mychajliw and Stefan Reshetylo, with profound gratitude accepted the grant from Volodymyr Maychenko and Sergey Davidenko, two directors of Maria Hulai-Lion Foundation.

This "princely" grant, in conjunction with other donations, will sponsor a number of computer learning centers at schools, orphanages and other non-governmental institutions throughout Ukraine. Recent elections in Ukraine proved that the computers and Internet are powerful instruments used to advance the causes of freedom, foster democracy and free-market commerce and empower the people at the grass-root level.

To date, the Kobzar Society has delivered, as humanitarian aid free-of-charge to the recipient, over 500 late-model refurbished computers to over 100 educational institutions throughout Ukraine. These computers were placed in schools (public-, church- or synagogue-based), libraries, hospitals, cultural and volunteer-based organizations affecting many thousands of Ukraine's young to prepare them for the tasks of building a free, prosperous and democratic state.

Using the funds received from the Maria Hulai-Lion Foundation, the Kobzar Society already dispatched 10 computers to Ivano-Frankivsk and 13 computers are destined for Primary/Secondary School No. 4 in the city of Periatyn, Poltava Oblast.

Tax-deductible donations may be sent to Kobzar Society, P.O. Box 37, Lehighton, PA 18235. Readers may visit the website www.kobzarsociety.org for more details.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, May 15, 2005, No. 20, Vol. LXXIII

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