HUMANITARIAN AID LORRIES SETTING OFF FROM LONDON TO UKRAINE [10/03/1990] / TV EDITS REPATRIATION OF COSSACKS AFTER THE WAR
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WORK ID: YFA 6965 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| HUMANITARIAN AID LORRIES SETTING OFF FROM LONDON TO UKRAINE [10/03/1990] / TV EDITS REPATRIATION OF COSSACKS AFTER THE WAR | 1990 | 1990-03-10 |
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Details
Original Format: VHS Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 1 hr 18 mins Genre: Documentary Subject: Women Health/Social Services |
| Summary This film documents the departure of two lorries from London, which have been filled with aid collected by the Ukrainian community following an initiative by the Association of Ukrainian Women in Great Britain (AUW). This was the first campaign delivered by AUW's Ukrainian Children's Appeal Fund (Fond Materi i Dytyny) and was intended to help mothers and children affected by the Chernobyl / Chornobyl nuclear disaster by supplying medicines and other essential items. The film was made by the Ukrainian Video Archives Society (UVAS). The film is in colour with sound and the main language is Ukrainian with occasional English. |
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Description
This film documents the departure of two lorries from London, which have been filled with aid collected by the Ukrainian community following an initiative by the Association of Ukrainian Women in Great Britain (AUW). This was the first campaign delivered by AUW's Ukrainian Children's Appeal Fund (Fond Materi i Dytyny) and was intended to help mothers and children affected by the Chernobyl / Chornobyl nuclear disaster by supplying medicines and other essential items. The film was...
This film documents the departure of two lorries from London, which have been filled with aid collected by the Ukrainian community following an initiative by the Association of Ukrainian Women in Great Britain (AUW). This was the first campaign delivered by AUW's Ukrainian Children's Appeal Fund (Fond Materi i Dytyny) and was intended to help mothers and children affected by the Chernobyl / Chornobyl nuclear disaster by supplying medicines and other essential items. The film was made by the Ukrainian Video Archives Society (UVAS). The film is in colour with sound and the main language is Ukrainian with occasional English.
This film records a ceremony held at the statute of St Volodymyr at Holland Park Avenue in London, from where the lorry set off on its route across Europe to Kyiv (Kiev). The ceremony is led by Bohdana Khrusheltnytska, chair of AUW, with support from Lessia Djakowska and Iryna Terlecky who were all instrumental in organising the campaign. Bohdana Khrushelnytsky gives an opening speech, followed by a list of all the items in the lorry including amounts and weights, which is read by Iryna Terlecky and Lessia Djakowska In English and Ukrainian. The final items are loaded into the lorries, and there is an interview with the lorry driver. Music performance by group from Kyiv, footage of the crowd and the trucks, priests say prayers, patriarchal hymn is sung, BK says final goodbye to the trucks, everyone sings Ukrainian national anthem, priests bless the trucks, announcement that refreshments are available, footage inside one of the trucks, interview with Iryna Terlecky about the campaign.
Context
A campaigning and fundraising organisation since its foundation in 1948, the Association of Ukrainian Women (AUW) in Great Britain developed its approach to humanitarian aid in response to the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear disaster by setting up the Ukrainian Children’s Appeal Fund (Fond Materi I Dytyny). A national campaign was launched with the aim of sending humanitarian supplies to families in Ukraine who had been affected by Chornobyl and who were struggling to get medication and basic supplies.
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