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Youth Can Summer Camp 2021 is officially open! After a long year of many unknowns, it is so exciting to see 28 of the program's students together starting a week of bonding, learning, exploring and making memories that will last a lifetime. Thanks to many generous sponsors this camp was made possible for all the campers free of charge and loaded with fun!

Bring Together Lithuania 2021 is coming to an end. This summer 15 motivated World Lithuanians from the US, Ireland, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Russia joined the summer internship program and explored beautiful modern Lithuania. The Kazickas Family Foundation is a proud supporter of Bring Together Lithuania that builds bridges for young Lithuanians all around the globe connecting them to Lithuania.

Aside to all the important work done during his trip to Lithuania in June, Peter Kazickas found time to visit some dear relatives and family friends, as well as see few of the most amazing places that make Lithuania so beautiful.

While continuing his very busy trip to Lithuania, Peter Kazickas dedicated time to visit few of the programs that KFF supports. “On Sunday, June 20^th we attended a mass in Mamyte's honor and presented a Literacy Award in Memory of Petras Butenas and his student Alexandra Kazickas to one of Lithuania's great linguists,” shared Peter using a sweet name that all the children and grandchildren of Alexandra Kazickas call her – Mamyte.

The pandemic postponed everyone's plans for some time, including Peter Kazickas'. However that didn't stop him to move forwards with his initiative Uncommon.lt. Finally, after some bumps along the way, Peter made it to Lithuania in June of 2021 and to put it in Peter's own words "in typical KFF fashion, we hit the ground running and were busy from start to finish."

For third year already Vytautas Zemkalnis High School held a ceremony presenting school's students and teacher with the special awards. The Kazickas Family Foundation established such awards to honor Alexandra Kalvenas-Kazickas (1920-2011) memory. School Lithuanian language and literatue teacher Rasa Majauskiene shares few highlights of the event:

"Youth Can" program, initiated and sponsored by the kazickas family Foundation, marked the end of the season with a fun day with the coaches in Rumsiskes, Lithuania.

On June 20th at St. Casimir Church in Vilnius, Vilnius University Siauliai Academy professor emeritus dr. habil. Kazimieras Romualdas Zuperka was awarded the Literacy Award in Memory of Petras Butenas and his student Alexandra Kazickas.

Bring Together Lithuania 2021 is officially open! The Lithuanian diaspora youth were welcomed by President Gitanas Nausėda and the First Lady Diana Nausėdienė.

Please join us this Sunday, June 20th at 12 pm (Vilnius time) / 5 am EST at St. Casimir church in Vilnius or virtually for Holy Mass and Sacred Music concert celebrating the memory of Alexandra Kazickas, a generous philanthropist and mother of five children.