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Today, January 13th Lithuania observes Freedom Fighters Day. It abandoned the Soviet legacy 28 years ago and embarked on a path leading to democracy and membership in the EU and NATO. Lithuanians remember January 13, 1991, as the day on which 14 people lost their lives for their country's independence. Let's wear Forget Me Not bloom today close to our hearts and light a candle remembering Lithuania's heroes, let's not forget what Freedom meant to every Lithuanian in 1991 and what it means to us today.

Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Scienceis is inviting all to the meeting where Baltic Studies Post-Doctoral fellowship at Yale University will be presented. The meting will take place Thursday, January 17th at 5pm at the large auditorium.

Halfway through the Youth Can 2018/2019 season, more than 300 program's boys and girls from 16 towns and villages of Lithuania are going to Jonava where they will meet at the second program‘s event.

Renkuosi mokyti! (Teach For Lithuania) program is working towards the success and joy for every child in Lithuania since 2008. Driven by the belief that the future of the country starts in the classroom, talented motivated people choose to teach for at least two years of their careers.

Kazickas Family Foundation presents Jurbarkas library and its readers with Joseph Kazickas 100th jubilee exhibition and the latest edition of his autobiography "Odyssey of Hope - Journey Never Ends."

Happy Holidays and all the best in 2019 from the Kazickas Family Foundation!

Hoops 4 Hope (H4H) is an international non-profit that has been operating for the last 23 years in underserved communities throughout Zimbabwe and South Africa. Using sport as our platform, Hoops 4 Hope is dedicated to giving children and young adults the tools needed to face the many challenges of growing up in disadvantaged communities.

Petras Butenas (1898-1980) was a linguist, an anthropologist, an interpretor and a teacher. He researched Lithuanian language dialects, prepositions, place names, contributed preparing Lithuanian dictionary, wrote the accentuation text book. He was also Alexandra Kazickas' Lithuanian language and literature teacher at the Panevezys High School for Girls. In 2002 Alexandra Kazickas established the award in the honor of her dear teacher Petras Butenas.

Looking back with gratitude. Back in October a group of youth of Lithuanian descent living in Russia and Belarus, visited the Kazickas family residence in Vilnius to learn about Joseph P. Kazickas and his incredible life.

In 2012 the Kazickas Family Foundation established the Joseph P. Kazickas Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Yale to support the Baltic Studies program in the MacMillan Center's Council on European Studies. The Fellowship provides resources for visiting scholars and researchers from Lithuania to study at Yale and organize workshops and seminars on campus about issues relevant to the Baltic Sea region.