Zhanna Veyts's blog

Breast Cancer Awareness Month has only just begun, but JDC’s Women’s Health Empowerment Program is already in high gear. As I make my way back from the 5th Annual Race for the Cure that took place in Sarajevo last weekend, my heart swells with pride, thinking of how far we’ve come since the program’s inception.

I paid a home visit to a family in Zaporozhe, Ukraine, last month that remains etched in my mind. Their difficult living situation is typical of the thousands of needy children and families who are benefiting today from Jewish Family Service (JFS) programs that JDC helped communities establish and the critical assistance they provide with support from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews/JDC Partnership for Children in the Former Soviet Union.