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In early November Jurate Kazickas spent a week in Lithuania. With each visit, Jurate brings many delightful ideas to Lithuania and gathers research for foundations future work. Here Jurate shares some highlights of her trip:

Peter Kazickas, the founder of Basketball Power, first visited Zimbabwe and volunteered with the Hoops4Hope program 7 years ago. He fell in love with this country and its people and kept searching for more ways to help the Zimbabwe children ever since.

On this Thanksgiving Day of 2017, all of us at the Kazickas Family Foundation would like to thank all of you who have been working hard to make this world a better, safer and more caring place for the children all around the world.

Adolfas Damusis Democracy Center invited journalist, writer, philanthropist of Lithuanian descent living in the USA, KFF director Jurate Kazickas to visit M. Martynas National Library during her stay in Lithuania. Neila Baumiliene, KFF NY office director, joined her on the tour as well.

The Kazickas Family Foundation is the Basketball Power founder and main sponsor. One of program's teams, Lentvario Motiejaus Šimelionio Gimnazija team, was honored to meet the KFF New York office director Neila Baumilienė. 

Cincinnati Emergency medicine doctor Herb Loyd and head of Emergency medicine at Cincinnati hospital Kurt Knochel can proudly announce that the first year of three year plan to expose 24 Lithuanian Physicians training in the specialty of Emergency Medicine about how to manage and direct Emergency Medicine Departments in community hospitals is done with tremendous success.

Veterans Day is a U.S. legal holiday dedicated to American veterans of all wars. Great Britain, France, Australia and Canada also commemorate the veterans of World War I and II on or near November 11th: Canada has Remembrance Day, while Britain has Remembrance Sunday (the second Sunday of November). In Europe, Great Britain and many other countries it is common to observe two minutes of silence at 11 a.m. every November 11.

The Ministry of Education and Science of Lithuania together with The Education Exchanges Support Foundation announces application process for Lithuanian student internships with Lithuanian schools, communities and Baltic studies centers in diaspora for 2018-2019 school year. Schools interested in hosting a student for internship, please submit application before November 30, 2017.

On October 14th Lithuanian School of Washington held school's and KFF Matching Grant event at Lithuanian Embassy in Washington D.C. Over $10,000 were collected during the evening! The Kazickas Family Foundation is excited by such a successful event and will add $1,000 to the funds. Additionally, an anynymous donor will add $2,000 more. All collected funds will be used to create a productive educational environment for school's students.

On Sunday before the All Souls Day, the Kazickas family members with a small group of Alexandra Kazickas Lithuanian school children and parents visited the final resting place of dr. Joseph Kazickas, his wife Alexandra and their son Alexander at the East Hampton cemetery.