UPDATE: Here are some notes Tania distributed after the presentation:
Two local non-profits helping the Ukrainian people:
UKRAINE FORWARD
https://www.ukraineforward.org/
Ukraine Forward is an initiative of the Ukrainian American Education Center, a
registered 501c(3) nonprofit. The Tax ID number is 80-0311003.
146 Forest Hills St
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 US
CENTER MAKOR
Jewish Educational and Cultural Center serving Russian-speaking Jews
https://www.centermakor.org/help-ukraine/
384 Harvard St.
Brookline, MA 02446
AUTHORITATIVE AUTHORS AND HISTORIANS
ANNE APPLEBAUM, staff writer for The Atlantic and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian. Senior Fellow at the Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University https://www.anneapplebaum.com/
SERHII PLOKHII, Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University;
Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Link to publications:
https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/serhii-plokhii
Prof. Plokhii’s newest book is coming out in May: The Russo-Ukrainian War: the Return to History, W.W. Norton
TIMOTHY D. SNYDER, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University; permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Link to publications:
https://history.yale.edu/people/timothy-snyder
Tuesday, February 7 at 2:00 PM
Sudbury Senior Center, 40 Fairbanks Rd, Sudbury MA 01776
Please sign up by contacting the Senior Center at
978 443 3055 or senior@sudbury.ma.us
Snow date: 2/23/23 at 2:00 PM
Presented by Tania Vitvitsky:
“In October and November of 2022, I spent eight weeks in Lviv, volunteering at the Ukrainian Educational Platform (UEP), a Ukrainian non-profit, assisting Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). According to the International Office for Migration (IOM), as of Dec. 5, 2022, there were 5,914,000 IDPs in Ukraine due to the Russian invasion.
Lviv, located in western Ukraine, has managed to avoid large-scale destruction but deals with frequent, sometimes daily power blackouts and often a lack of water. How do Lviv city residents manage to keep going while Russian missiles and Iranian drones cut power and water, and lay waste to near and far cities, villages, and towns? I will share my photos to give the audience a glimpse of life during war, how I managed a daily routine during frequent air raid sirens. I assisted a rapidly expanding non-profit organization working with the neediest of families and children.”
Bio: Presenter Tania Vitvitsky has been active as:
- Commissioner, Sudbury Housing Authority
- Chair, Sudbury Democratic Town Committee
- Trustee, Vice President, and Trustees of Donations for Education in Liberia, Boston, MA
- Member, Advisory Committee, Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation, Chicago, IL
- Volunteer, Sudbury Food Pantry .