DEAR EDITOR -- The Board of the Leleka Fund is writing to organisations, to businesses and to individuals with a hope that we will find support and help in our work.

The Leleka Fund is an officially registered organisation (the registration number is OO37-97 in The Ministry of Justice in Kiev City).

The fund seeks citizens who wish to take part in helping Ukrainian children by organising recuperative trips and improving the children's health.

The Board of our organisation has prepared a new project "Clean Air" the main aim of which is to organise these recuperative trips for children and youth from Ukraine who live in the areas contaminated by radiation after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Our address is at the bottom of this letter and we hope, through your readers, that this letter will help to find some families or organisations who would be able to receive Ukrainian children for Christmas -which would give them an opportunity to breathe clean air and to eat fresh, free from radiation food.

It would be a great opportunity for them to experience your culture and traditions as well.

Anyone who can help should write to the LELEKA Fund at P. O. Box 328, Kiev-2, O2OO2, Ukraine. Fax: O38+O44+5624119, or e-mail: fund_leleka@ukr.net

Yurij Slobodyanuk

Fund President