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"Youth Can" manager Arminas Vareika has been leading 300 program's children and coaches by example: doing it, coaching it and living it. Lithuanian Pasvalys region paper "Darbas" shares Arminas' story, his motivation, his role models and what gets him going and going.

Big Thank You goes out to Oleg Strelnikoff, a journalist from Saratov and a good Kazickas family friend, for his initiative to make sure that the Russian edition of dr. Joseph P. Kazickas (1918 - 2014) and Alexandra Kazickas' (1920 - 2011) biography "Odyssey of Hope" reaches as many readers as possible.

On March 14, 2020 Kaunas University of Technology Faculty of Informatics will host Dr. J. P. Kazickas Computer Science Forum for school students where the most talented boys and girls will compete in programming, IT applications, multi media and program development.

The Kazickas Family Foundation and its program “Youth Can” are glad to have been able to use its network of friends and partners to help one special young man in need.

According to the Ministry of Health of Lithuania, starting on March 1, 2020, syringe infusion pumps will be available free of charge for the palliative care cancer patients. They will be compensated by the National Health Insurance Fund. It is wonderful news for the patients and their families going through hard times.

Teachers and coaches are role models that lead students through many challenges of life. No question it's one of the most important jobs that has a power to make or break young person's future and affect the path he or she will take. Investment in Youth Can coaches is one of the main priorities the program focuses on. Every few months they are invited to a continuous education seminar where they can learn from the experts and each other new effective ways to teach, to lead and to build successful teams.

On Saturday, February 29, 2020 Yale MacMillan Center Baltic Studies Program is inviting all to a symposium titled "KGB Surveillance in the Soviet Baltic Republics: Documentary Evidence and Coping with the Past."

The Kazickas Family Foundation and Lithuanian Language Association are inviting all to nominate the candidates for an Award in Memory of Petras Butenas and His Student Alexandra Kazickas.

It is exciting to hear that philanthropic work of the Kazickas Family Foundation was recognized with the Gabriele Petkevicaite-Bite memorial award "Serve Lithuania" by Lithuanian Government.

On February 15th The Kazickas Family Foundation in collaboration with the Literary Museum of A. Pushkin in Vilnius hosted a presentation of the Russian edition of “Odyssey of Hope” - a book on the life story of Dr. Joseph P. Kazickas (1918 – 2014) and his wife Alexandra Kazickas (1920 – 2011).