December 20, 2011
PRESS RELEASE
UWC PRESIDENT MEETS WITH BUDUCHNIST CREDIT UNION AND THE LEADERSHIP OF THE LEAGUE OF UKRAINIAN CANADIANS AND LEAGUE OF UKRAINIAN CANADIAN WOMEN
On December 17, 2011, Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) President Eugene Czolij met in Toronto, Canada with members of the Board of Directors of Buduchnist Credit Union (Buduchnist), Canada’s largest Ukrainian credit union, and representatives of the leadership of the League of Ukrainian Canadians (LUC) and the League of Ukrainian Canadian Women (LUCW).
Participating in the meeting were Buduchnist Board members Orest Kostruba, Andrew Tarapacky and Oleh Romanyshyn, who is also Editor-in-Chief of the Ukrainian language weekly newspaper Homin Ukrainy (Ukrainian Echo), LUC President Orest Steciw and LUCW Honorary President and Buduchnist Human Resources Manager Chrystyna Bidiak, and UWC Executive Administrator Lesia Szubelak.
After a brief discussion aboutUWC’s work and current events in Ukraine the representatives pledged their support for future UWC activities. Buduchnist presented a cheque in the amount of $15,000 and LUC and LUCW each presented cheques in the amount of $2,500.
