[Cz-L] summer project

From: Joanna Liss <joliss_at_comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:25:51 -0500
To: czernowitz-L_at_list.cornell.edu
Reply-to: Joanna Liss <joliss_at_comcast.net>

Just to add to Mimi's comments about the summer cemetery project: American
volunteers should register through Volunteers for Peace (www.vfp.org).
It is a wonderful organization, sponsoring projects all over the world in
coordination with its partners in many nations, including SVIT in Ukraine.

I was a member of the original volunteer group two years ago. If anyone
wants additional info please let me know. It was the 6th volunteer project I
have participated in thru vfp. IN general the volunteers are in their 20's.
I am in my late 50's.

All of my voluntter experiences have been very rewarding. The one in Cz,
though, was different, though, in that my own relatives are from there,
including my grandmother and aunt. My great-grandparents are buried in the
cemetery. I did not know any of this when I signed up for the program, only
there was some family connection. Needless to say, finding their graves(with
help from the other volunteers, the graves were completed emmeshed in
brambles and other growth.) and also their birth and death records in the
archives was an amazing experience.

It is due to this experience that I became a member of this list.

Joanna Liss
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