This is the first nationwide program on supporting the talented youth which is implemented with private funds. The program “Zavtra.UA” is a part of projects complex within the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in the educational and scientific sphere.
Neonatal intensive care center was opened in the maternity hospital of the Vladimerets town (Rovenskaya region). It was done within the Cradles of Hope program being implemented by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation which envisages a networking of the neonatal centers nationwide.
In Livadia Palace (Crimea, Ukraine), the third annual meeting of “Yalta European Strategy”, an international network for Ukraine in EU, has accomplished its work. At its closing plenary session, the YES has presented “Agenda 2020”, a plan for Ukraine’s integration into the EU, which outlines a set of preparatory steps for Ukraine’s entry to the EU.
Ex-President of Poland Aleksandr Kwasniewski has been elected a member of the board of the international network for Ukraine in the European Union "Yalta European Union" (YES). It was announced by Victor Pinchuk, founder and board member of this international organization, at the closing of the YES Third Annual Conference in the Livadia Palace of Yalta.
Among the guests and participants of this meeting, there were above 150 policy-makers, public figures and diplomats from Europe and USA, including members of parliaments and EU foreign ministers, heads of EU diplomatic missions in Ukraine, deputies of European Parliament.
On 1 June, the Day of Advocacy of Children, the neonatal center, an intensive therapy department for newborns, was launched in the Chernigov maternity hospital. The center was opened within the Cradles of Hope program which is developed and funded by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation with a view to facilitate solving of the infant mortality problem.
Over 200 home and foreign policy experts, journalists, businessmen, academia and simply people who care about Ukraines future gathered in Berlin on April 25, 2006, for an international conference Ukraine After the Elections
An innovative RECOVERY rehabilitation center for Ukrainian defenders who were injured in combat has opened in Ternopil. This marks the 17th center in the national RECOVERY network, founded by Victor and Olena Pinchuk to support Ukraine's Security and Defense Forces.
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation, as part of its technical support to the Cradles of Hope partner centres, has covered the cost of repairing the newborn incubator and purchased consumables to ensure the smooth operation of the medical equipment at the neonatal intensive care unit of the Vinnytsia Oblast Perinatal Centre at the Pirogov Regional Clinical Hospital. The total cost of the repairs and materials was UAH 181,215.00.
As part of its ongoing support for the Cradles of Hope programme to save the lives of every child born in Ukraine, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation has once again provided assistance to the neonatal intensive care unit of the Sumy Oblast Clinical Perinatal Centre by paying for the repair of a transport ventilator and its components in the amount of UAH 61 566.