Ukrainian Canadian Community Welcomes Federal $1.5M Funding For Holodomor Awareness Project

The three year grant, valued at $1.5M, will support the education of tens of thousands of students, community leaders and the public at large on the historical events of the horrific Holodomor Genocide in Ukraine, 1932-33.

The “Holodomor National Awareness Tour”, is a joint project between four organizations: the Canada Ukraine Foundation (CUF, the lead on the project), the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC), the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre (UCRDC) and the Holodomor Research and Educational Consortium (HREC).

“This project will build bridges among communities to promote intercultural understanding, tolerance, awareness and a deeper respect for the democratic values that we Canadians hold so dear,” said Bob Onyschuk, Q.C., Past Chair of CUF, and Project Lead.

”The Holodomor is one of the greatest crimes against humanity”, said Prof. Jurij Darewych, the Chair of UCRDC. “Yet, despite its being recognized as Genocide by the Parliament of Canada, knowledge about this tragedy is not as widespread as it ought to be. The Holodomor National Awareness Tour will be an important tool in informing and reminding Canadians of this horrible example of man’s inhumanity to man.

”This project will operate as a teaching module for elementary and high school students, teaching the values of multiculturalism, diversity, and the importance of human rights and freedoms, the rule of law and respect for human dignity. It will also present the concept of crimes against humanity and genocide as seen through the lens of the Holodomor.