A recent trip to bring quilts to a Ukrainian girls orphanage included a former area resident and a recent SUCO graduate.
Kindness in Action, a nonprofit group in Severna Park, Md., that supports a number of projects around the world, sponsors an orphanage in L'viv, Ukraine, said executive director Rachael Blair.
The group, led by former Schenevus resident Rose Stevens, of Tacoma, delivered 17 quilts during a visit from June 13 to July 3, she said.
She was accompanied by a group that included Stevens' niece, Renee Gaston, 22, a recent State University College at Oneonta graduate now working as an substitute at Bugbee Children's Center. She lives in the town of Maryland.
Stevens, who graduated from State University of New York at New Paltz in 1973, and left this area in 1976, said she visits Ukraine every year. But this is the first time she brought her niece, who always had an interest.
Gaston said it was the first time she has been outside the United States.
"It was a big experience for me," she said.
She graduated in May with a Bachelor of Arts degree in child and family studies, she said, and is considering a career in social work.
