Where We Are Now For
the
past
50
years,
SUSK
(Ukrainian Canadian Students’ Union) has been a very active organization in the Ukrainian Canadian community. To continue thriving in the coming years, SUSK plans on continuing to involve as many students as possible, all the while working on several new initiatives. SUSK is currently working on a few significant projects, namely the MITACS project, the Student Highschool Handbook, and the Postcard for Prisoners Campaign. MITACS is an organization that encourages international students to propose their research abroad. SUSK makes the introduction between MITACS Students and local USOs (Ukrainian Student Or-
Left: MITACS students Pavlo, Olena and Dmitry at Trinity College.
ganizations). We further facilitate
Top Right: uVIC running a Post Cards for Prisoners Event.
local University events with which
Bottom Right: OUSC running a Post Cards for Prisonners Event.
MITACS Students have the opportunity to present their research. Currently, we have several international
across Canada have access to a
portive message to a political prisoner.
students throughout all provinces in
mountain of information in which they
The letters are then mailed directly to
Canada.
are able to explore their university
the prisoners and acts as a form of
options.
hope for them, letting them know that
Another
useful
tool
that
SUSK has been working on is the
Finally, SUSK has partnered
they are not forgotten. The procedure
Student Highschool Handbook. Es-
with #LetMyPeopleGo, which is a
is very simple and brief, but makes a
sentially, this handbook is an illustra-
campaign that promotes the release of
monumental difference - not only to
tive guide to answer significant ques-
unjustly imprisoned Ukrainians in
those receiving the postcards, but also
tions, such as the following: What
Russia. SUSK believes strongly in this
to the people who participate in the
kind of Ukrainian life can we expect
project, and has had more than four
activity and learn from it. As an organ-
on campus? What is the school’s cli-
USOs participate in the campaign this
ization, SUSK works hard to support
mate as it relates to Ukraine? Thanks
year alone. The process involves writ-
meaningful causes.◊
to this initiative, future students from
ing a postcard with a kind and sup-
