{"id":10954,"date":"2026-05-09T04:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10954"},"modified":"2026-05-09T03:55:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:55:55","slug":"svitlana-and-maple-hope-fdn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/svitlana-and-maple-hope-fdn\/","title":{"rendered":"Svitlana and Maple Hope Fdn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Paulette had been telling me for months that I needed to meet her friend Svitlana Kominko, the founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maplehopefoundation.org\/our-story\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.maplehopefoundation.org\/our-story\/\">Maple Hope Foundation<\/a>, an organization that emerged during the 2014 when the founders met during solidarity marches in Vancouver for the Euromaidan Revolution. We met for dinner on Friday night and talked for hours. I have such deep respect for Svitlana and all that she and her team have been able to accomplish. Do check out her website and donate if you can. I wish we had got a photo of us together! Here&#8217;s a pic of Svitlana, scooped from her facebook page. What a wonderful way to end an amazing week. I flew home the next morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/svitlana.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/svitlana.jpg 668w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/svitlana-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/svitlana-139x150.jpg 139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulette had been telling me for months that I needed to meet her friend Svitlana Kominko, the founder of the Maple Hope Foundation, an organization that emerged during the 2014 when the founders met during solidarity marches in Vancouver for the Euromaidan Revolution. We met for dinner on Friday night and talked for hours. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/svitlana-and-maple-hope-fdn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Svitlana and Maple Hope Fdn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1081,262],"tags":[645,1068,1082,1083,7,1070],"class_list":["post-10954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bcbookweek","category-news-stories","tag-ccbc","tag-kidsbookweek","tag-maple-hope-foundation","tag-svitlana-kominko","tag-ukrainian","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10956,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954\/revisions\/10956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}