Head of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, David Fernish and the founder ANTIAID Foundation, Elena Franchuk have dedicated the first half of the Saturday, June, 16, to the study of situation on spread of HIV-AIDS in Ukraine.
The exhibition, entitled ‘A Poem about an Inland Sea', features artists from the Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States who demonstrate a cohesive vision and commitment to exploring new and active roles for artists in society.
“An Instinctive Eye: A Selection of Contemporary Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection” exhibition is be open June 16 through August 12 2007 in the PinchukArtCentre.
On May 22, 2007 in Chernnivtsi City, a new neonatal intensive care centre was opened under the auspices of the “Cradles of Hope” Program sponsored by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation paid for the repair of medical equipment and purchased spare parts for its partner center, “Cradles of Hope,” which operates in the neonatal intensive care unit of the perinatal center at the Uzhhorod City Multidisciplinary Clinical Hospital, for a total cost of 230,000 hryvnias.
Victor and Olena Pinchuk continue to expand the all-Ukrainian network of mental health centers RETURNING (ukr. ПОВЕРНЕННЯ). The new RETURNING center, created jointly with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine on the basis of one of the departmental medical institutions, became the 17th in the network.
As part of its technical support for “Cradles of Hope” partner centers, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation covered the cost of repairing three mechanical ventilators, an open resuscitation system, and purchased consumables to ensure the uninterrupted operation of medical equipment in the neonatal intensive care unit of the regional perinatal center at the M.I. Pirogov Vinnytsia Regional Clinical Hospital. The total cost of the repairs and materials amounted to 130,000.00 UAH.