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¹ 21(34) 22.5.2003


The editorial board of the newspaper "Vhoru" is asking for your apologizes, as we accidentally misinformed our readers when we published the article in the 15 edition of our newspaper named "HBK and the city executive committee agreed!"
We will remind: the newspaper "Vhoru" told our readers a few times about the intentions of the management of HBK to close the last students' center in the most criminal district. Due to this decision, 150 students and employees of HBK would find themselves on the street. But the teacher of the last students' center Stanislava Podobyeda decided to keep fighting for the right to work and develop children, and provide decent education to the children. She filed a claim to the court and asked for help from the coalition of NGO from Kherson region "Partnership for transparent society".
Within the half of a year the coalition made a number of efforts to make the management of HBK and representatives of the city executive council seat at the round table for mediations and solve the problem. And finally on April 3rd the mayor's deputy Sergiy Cherevko and the deputy head of HBK Viktor Bayrachenko, in the presence of HBK lawyer and two members of the coalition "Partnership for transparent society" agreed on the following: OSC HBK will provide the center free of charge and the city will pay the salary to the teacher and utilities bills of the center.
The lawyer of HBK developed a project about cooperation between the company and the city executive committee. That was the time when we published our happy article. Could we have thought that the head of HBK Sergiy Rybachok would refuse to sign the agreement and would make absolutely new conditions after the lawyer of his company and the deputy mayor Vyacheslav Yaremenko had made all the mediations? Who could have known that the mediations would be postponed for the unknown period?
Meanwhile, the court process of Stanislava Podobyeda was coming to an end. And suddenly something unexpected happened. On the eve of the last court hearing the two young men came to the students center and talked to Stanislava Podobyeda, they said they were from the Dniprovsky district executive committee. They informed Stanislava that Sergiy Cherevko requested that they come and tell Stanislava not to show up at the court room, as it would be better for her. They also mentioned the lawyer of the coalition "Partnership for transparent society" Oleksandr Burmagin, who represented Stanislava Podobyeda in the court - according to their words he did not advise Stanislava to show up in the court room either. It is unknown if they really were the employers of the district executive committee and Sergiy Cherevko requested them to inform Stanislava, but as to Oleksandr Burmagin - it was a lie. Stanislava Antonivna believed them and did not show up during the court hearing - as a result the judge decided to stop the court investigation.
A month ago the head of HBK Sergiy Rybachko had the opinion that he will not give anything free of charge (the center belongs to the company), the center can be given on the basis of paid rent, it is not my headache to prevent criminal situation in the district, I was hired to do the anti-crisis management at the company and I have to think how to pay salaries to the company's employees. He thinks that Stanislava Podobyeda is scandalous.
The position of Sergiy Cherevko: the city executive committee has no reasons to pay for the center, the city has enough rooms and buildings, it could have easily given a job to Stanislava Podobyeda and opened a new center in some other district.
Of course, there would be other children in another district… And what would happen to these children while their parents work? Will their others work well thinking about the safety of their children, who will be waiting for them in the street? They have no place to go to: the families are too poor to pay for any sport clubs and diverse children's clubs
Many companies worldwide have a so-called "family day" (at least once a month) when parents have to visit their children's schools and talk to the teachers about children. Then they take there kids out for some entertainment. The company keeps the salary for this day. The company also checks if parents really attended schools at this day. They do so because one day children's problems become parent's problems and it influenced the quality of their work and respectively influences the company profit. It is the purely business approach to the problem.
The mediations between HBK and the city executive committee are still in process, but we can not learn of anything has changed so far. Two weeks ago Sergiy Rubachok assured one of the authors of this article: everything is settled, you should ask Yaroslav Yaremenko for details. Vyacheslav Vasylyovych refused to talk and asked his secretary to tell us: ask our head Rybchak. Sergiy Cherevko promised to learn about the situation and call the editor's office with details - he never called us. Extremely mysterious story. Unwillingly a question arose: may eb there is a third party in the story who is interested in the center? Long time ago they closed the rest of the centers and opened stores or bars… How else can we explain the situation when two powerful men can not resolve such a minor problem for more than half of the year?
Meanwhile, disappointed Stanislava Antotivna filed the next claim to the court.

Alla Tyutyunnyk, Oleksandr Burmagin, "Vhoru"


To be continued.