Who: All Ukrainian Students’ Organizations in Canada
When:
Official Start Date – October 1st, 2011
Official End Date – November 30th, 2011
Donation Day – December 3rd, 2011
More Details: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=172540239489177
Our goal is to raise awareness of the Holodomor, using the Ukrainian community across the United States & Canada, to collect food for their local food banks to be donated in recognition of the Famine-Genocide.
We want Ukrainian groups such as CYM, Plast, sports teams, dance groups, Ukrainian student clubs, churches, banks, fraternities, sororities, your group of friends, etc from all over to form “teams” and “compete” in our ef…fort.
We plan to gather non perishable food over the next few months and donate it right before Christmas.
Official Start Date – October 1st, 2011
Official End Date – November 30th, 2011
Donation Day – December 3rd, 2011
What do we do with the food?
NJ for example has a large food bank distribution system where food is brought to one main place and distributed accordingly throughout NJ based on the smaller food banks’ needs.
A week or so before Christmas all the Oseredoks, Stanytsias, soccer teams, student clubs, etc say from NJ meet at the same food bank at the same time and bring all their food. Each group will have their contributions tallied individually, photos taken and all that, then all the food is combined and donated in recognition of the Holodomor.
I am hoping the different Ukrainian groups are able to do this in their states as well. So far we have commitments in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Ohio & Chicago and soon hope to have them going in Boston, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Montreal, Toronto. We are hoping more groups will join from all over once word gets out.
The goal is to raise awareness through our charitable efforts. We hope to receive publicity from different avenues and raise awareness of the Holodomor by the general public who may not currently know about it and in doing so we help needy families around Christmas time.