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"Keep It Clean"

"Keep It Clean" is an environmental campaign that may be familiar to many volunteers. Kosiv students embraced the day. This girl even embroidered the logo on her pants.
Baseball Camp

Ukrainian campers and PCV's at baseball camp in Kosiv.
Baseball-Ukrainian Style

Kids at my school wanted to learn to play baseball. We had some equipment, but not nearly enough. So, a friend, who works at Yahoo!, asked his team if they could spend a bonus on baseball gear--they agreed! We ended up with enough equipment to have a "baseball camp." I don't know anything about baseball, so volunteers who do came and did a week long baseball training camp--it was so much fun! There were kids from about 6 or 7 years old to 18 all playing and learning together. The kids w...
Ukrainka yogini

My Ukrainian friends invited me to come to their exercise class. A Russian woman had been there 10 years earlier and taught them an aerobics routine--they had been following it to a "T" for the past 10 YEARS!!! That is how dedicated they are to being fit. They asked me to introduce them to yoga and we began practicing together in a unheated gym--my yoga friends from the States sent us mats! In the winter we could see our breath and our feet were blue. The women brought their ki...

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