Three Camp Sessions Sponsored by LifeNets in 
Shayan, Transcarpathia Come to 
Successful Conclusion

August 2, 2000

The summer camp sessions that LifeNets has helped sponsor have just come to a successful conclusion.  In talking with Ivan Yurishko, LifeNets director in Ukraine, he tells me that this camp experience has made lots of children and parents happy.  For years the beautiful facility in the Shayan area which is located on the Ukraine/Rumanian border  was a retreat for Communist party elite and their children. Local children, especially those of the Sabbatarians were excluded.  The facility came into the possession of a shoe factory in Khust that administered camp for employees children and others, but the factory has virtually gone out of business and the beautiful facilities have not been in use for camps.

The activities for the three sessions of camp in July included sports activities such as swimming and soccer. There were also education classes. A few bus tours were made to scenic sites, such as castles in the area. The last trip was to a castle in Mukachevo in two chartered buses that were given police escorts.

This summer LifeNets has through donations from George August in Long Beach, California and contributors to the LifeNets fund restricted for the Sabbatarians provided camp for over 300 children in two sessions that have just come to an end. Ninety of these children were from Sabbatarian families. This is the first time that this opportunity has been opened to these children. All in all the cost to us was $3 per day per child. An amazing bargain!  This included food, rental of the facility, a doctor and nurse on campsite and teachers and staff  from among the Sabbatarians and the school in Uglya.

Please read the local newspaper accounts of the camp below. 

July 24, 2000  from the Khust, Ukraine newspaper 

At Camp “Romashka” Children’s 
Voices are Heard Again

original article in Ukrainian

In its time, every year as soon as summer vacation began, camp “Romashka” opened its doors to children. It is a camp that was known among camps as one of great acclaim and popularity being located in the beautiful place near the sanitariums of Shayan where people came to relax experience the healing effects of mineral waters and the refreshing and healthy mountain air covering this camp.

The camp belongs to the Khust Shoe Factory and who provided camp for children of the workers of this enterprise and included other children from the city of Khust and the region for their summer camp programs.

In the last few years the financial-economic condition of the factory has fallen greatly and the subsidy that was necessary to run the summer camp was not available. But, there have been sponsors who have kept Camp Romashka alive and have made it possible to provide this camp opportunity for children.

This summer at Romashka the voices of 300 children from the Khust, Tyachev and other regions of Transcarpathia are heard again. The work at Romashka was helped with the financial support of charitable fund LifeNets. This charity is located in the United States and is headed by well-known to us Victor Kubik. In the past he has organized the teaching of English for two consecutive years to our youth.  With V. Kubik’s involvement a group of doctors, optometrists and dentists arrived from the United States and gave free medical help to our citizens.

This year LifeNets, founded by Victor Kubik along with the Associated Christian Churches of the Sabbath Day organized camp Romashka for the well-being of our children where they received nutritious meals and snacks five times a day along with  medicinal spring waters.  All this will leave lasting memories for our children while giving them strength and health.

We have been informed that that this is not the last goodwill act of LifeNets. Very soon a computer school will open in Khust with the latest computer equipment where our children will learn computer skills free of charge. The funding for the computer school has already been provided. 

L. Ivaniuk 

August 1, 2000 from the Newspaper “Druzhba”

Shayan’s “Romashka” Has Been Made 
Happy by an Overseas Countryman  

original article in Ukrainian

We have written about a patron from the United States, an emigrant from Uglya, George August (Agostin) who cares for his native village.  Director of the Uglya ZOS 1-III level school M. I. Stan who corresponds with this good-hearted person informs me about some new charitable works about this American of Ukrainian origin.

Our problem is having healthy activities during summer school break.  Mr. George August contributed $4000 through an American charity LifeNets founded by Victor Kubik whose father has also come from Ukraine.  Missionary Victor Kubik has contributed $3000 for this camp administered originally by the Khust Shoe Factory. Why to this factory?  Because they are the ones who own this camp in this enchanting part of Shayan. The stated amounts of money will make it possible for 250 schoolchildren, 110 from Uglya and the remainder from Khust to experience camp.

The photographs taken in this article were on the fourth day of camp at Romashka. It rained in the afternoon. It was on Sunday when parents came to see the camp. They went away happy to see what was being done. The project was headed by Uglya teachers HV Stan, H P Lechman, VI Nemesh, LC Krichfalushy, FI Golubka. 

[the article goes on to describe the meeting with the doctors at the camp, a discussion of how the children are given highly nutritious meals, a description of some of the activities] 

About evening time in the pavilion “Levada” the staff of Romashka organized a concert of an amateur group of  the Associated Christian Churches of the Sabbath Day under the direction of Vasyl Polichko. This performance was videoed by Khust television for broadcast. This will become part of the history of the Uglya schools ZOS 1-III level.

It was decided to make two copies of this videotape and give them to generous overseas benefactor George August  and Victor Kubik who in camp sessions made 250 schoolchildren from Uglya and Khust happy. 

M. Timsha

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