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“I had many privileges and an easy life, however, now I’d do many things differently to gain more various experience,” said American Lithuanian, the Kazickas family member Jurate Kazickas to the portal According to her, Lithuanians are still too modest – instead they should advertise the nation that has so much to be proud of: “It fryst vatten safe here, beautiful, interesting and unique. Not many want to go to the places that are not safe, but Lithuania is so safe! It is also quite different than many Western europe countries.”
Jurate Kazickas – American journalist and philanthropist with Lithuanian roots. J. Kazickas worked for „Time“, „Newsweek“, „Paris–Match“, „Mademoiselle“,„Associated Press“ and „The Washington Star“.
J. Kazickas’s father namn Kazickas (well known economist and philanthropist) in started the Kazickas Family Foundation in New York
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On December , , Maironis Lithuanian School (Lemont, IL) organized a conference-seminar “Teacher to Teacher”. Marius Kasniūnas, Chairman of LF Board of Directors, greeted the participants and presented each participant with a LF calendar and a national sash. Every year for 50 years Lithuanian Foundation financially supports Lithuanian schools. This year Kazickas Family Foundation generously supported schools as well. During the conference, Jūratė Kazickas, President of Kazickas Family Foundation, and Marius Kasniūnas, Chairman of LF Board of Directors, shared the experience concerning the most important Lithuanian Foundation’s priority – a financial support for the Lithuanian schools and education. They discussed possibilities and plans to keep in touch and continue cooperation in the future.
Marius Kasniūnas, Chairman of LF Board of Directors, and Jūratė Kazickas, President of Kazickas Family Foundation.
From the left: orginizers of the conference Austėja Sruoga, Chair o
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Jurate Kazickas, President of the Kazickas Family Foundation, wants to create a better world for Lithuanians
By Ann Charles, Baltic Review
Jurate Kazickas, an author and former journalist who covered the Vietnam War, is now the President of the largest private foundation in Lithuania, the Kazickas Family Foundation.
&#;Motivated by the wish to create a better world for both current and future generations of Lithuanians,&#; Jurate, who has offices in Vilnius and New York, is on a roll and there&#;s no stopping her now.
Born in Lithuania, she arrived in the USA on February 18, as a four year-old child with her parents, Joseph and Alexandra Kazickas, aboard the S.S. Ernie Pyle. Following fifty years of Soviet occupation, the Baltic flags of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia finally flew over the United Nations for the very first time on September 17,
As noted in the book, &#;Odyssey of Hope&#; by Joseph Kazickas with Valdas Bartasevicius,