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Last Friday, September 11, "Mamų Unija" president Egle Melinauskiene and her team cut the ribbon and officially opened the doors of the Family Home.

This year, the Sacred Music Hours cycle sponsored by the Kazickas Family Foundation invites you to a special concert series dedicated to mark the 100th birthday of Alexandra Kazickas. Lithuania’s young talents will appear in locations related to the life story of Alexandra. 

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. Since then nine Fellows from Lithuania already had a chance to advance their academic experience at Yale, including Spring 2020 Fellows, Vytautas Kuokstis and Stanislovas Stasiulis, who faced unexpected challenges and were forced to return home early due to COVID-19.

This year brought some unexpected challenges that forced Sacred Music Hours and Christopher Festival schedules to adapt. However, the powerful organ music will continue to sound in Vilnius, Klaipeda and Siauliai. On August 18, 2020 at 7 pm everyone is invited to the Sacred Music Hours Opening Concert of the Cycle at St. Casimir’s Church dedicated to mark Alexandra and Joseph Kazickas wedding anniversary.

The very first Youth Can Summer Camp was a big success! An opportunity for 34 program's boys and girls to spend a fun, creative, productive, bonding, and unforgettable week together is a product of many generous, creative, and hard working individuals.

Usually, the Lithuanian Cultural Camp Neringa​ would have been packed with children's excitement, commotion, and laughter this time of the year. However, these days its visitors are just the occasional bird or frog. While many were left heartbroken not to have the opportunity to see their friends at Neringa, the camp administration, counselors and community members have been working hard to keep everyone connected.

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevicius had a meeting with Lithuanian diaspora youth currently doing their internships in Lithuania thanks to Bring Together Lithuania and Lithuanian National Foundation programs.

For the first time KFF program “Youth Can” is bringing summer camp experience to its students. This opportunity is only possible with a help of generous supporters. Together with Jonas Nainys, "Youth Can" is inviting local Lithuanians to contribute and bring the experience of summer camp free of charge to children who need the financial assistance.

Even though the pandemic forced many to change their summer plans, Bring Together Lithuania program, powered by the Kazickas Family Foundation, is still on. It provides Lithuanian diaspora youth with opportunities to acquire professional skills, meet global Lithuanians and explore modern Lithuania during their 6 week stay in summer.

Six years ago the world lost a great man who touched so many hearts, Joseph P. Kazickas (1918-2014). His legacy of love, gratitude, generosity and dignity continues reaching many more and is shared through his children's and grandchildren's work and memories. Today, when love and hope is in high demand, J. P. Kazickas' granddaughter's words, shared six years ago, remind us of the humble wisdom he lived by: