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Open Ukraine Foundation Awarded Children of Migrant Workers

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In June 2008 the Open Ukraine Foundation announced the 10 winners of the contest "Children of Emigrants about Themselves" organized by the International Institute of Education, Culture and Public Relations (Lviv) and the Ukrainian community in Spain. The aim of the contest was to reveal the inner world of children who live outside their homeland and also of children whose parents have gone to work abroad. Children from two age groups (7-14 and 15-20) from Ukraine, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Russia, and Bulgaria submitted 156 works of art for this contest. They sincerely and ably expressed their feelings in poems, short stories, letters, plays, fairytales, interviews, and pictures. The awards ceremony was held within the frames of the Congress "Diaspora as a Factor of Establishing a Ukrainian State within the International Community" which took place in Lviv on June 18-20^th, 2008.

Extracts of some children's works: 

Kateryna Lazaruk (17 years old, Rakhnivska Secondary School, Dunayivtsi District, Khmelnytska Oblast)

"...I learned to read thoughts at a distance and to talk to stars. They are at a great distance from us, like my mother. At night, when awakened by my mother's touch, I instantly grab her hand: snatch! But she tears apart from me. She beckons me to follow her into another room. I am following her right onto the moon path. The moon is full, the whole room is shining, and my mummy and I are standing on the opposite sides of the path. I am rushing after my mother - she is running away..."

Yulia Pryimak (17 years old, Netishynskyi School/Lyceum Complex, Netishyn, Khmelnytska Oblast)

"...My native land! I am grateful to be your daughter. I am grateful to you for your green mountains, sky-blue rivers, and blooming fields. I am thankful to you for Ivan Franko and Lesia Ukrainka. They opened the world to me. I am grateful to you for M. Hrushevskyi, О. Subtel'nyi with whom I leaf through the pages of history. Thank you for Roksolana who gives me lessons of courage and wisdom. I am grateful to you and I also have a dream: I want every Ukrainian, wherever he lives, to carry in his heart a particle of our native land..."