Lyudmyla Kuchma, Evhen Benyukh
Ukrainian President's wife, the honorary president of "Ukraine for kids" charity fund, Lyudmyla Kuchma greets the winner of the "Ukrainian wheelchair knight-2002" contest, 31-year-old student of the sociology university Evhen Benyukh (Antratsyt town, eastern Ukraine) during the rewarding ceremony in Ukraine's capital Kiev on Friday, Nov. 29, 2002. Lyudmyla Kuchma presented Benyukh the keys of a hand-controlled car. Disabled people with backbone and spinal cord injuries took part in the contest organized by International Charity Fund of disabled people ("IP-Fund"). Following the statistics, over 2, 000 people in Ukraine annually get backbone injuries that makes up around 5 people a day, most of them are youth. This time the contest appeared to be International having invited the sportsmen from Russia and Belorussia.
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- 01.12.2002
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