Lana Todorovich, Fashion Executive and Humanitarian, is a almsman of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor to be presented on May 9th, 2009 on Ellis Island. According to the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, "The Ellis Island Medals of Honor pay accolade to the ancestor groups that comprise America's different cultural mosaic."
-- Lana Todorovich, Senior Vice President of Warnaco's Calvin Klein (CKU) division, has been called by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO) to accept the Ellis Island Medal of Honor on Saturday, May 9th 2009. Each year, NECO awards the Ellis Island Medal of Honor to outstanding American citizens who abide a activity committed to association service, announcement American values, and architecture bridges amid aboriginal communities active aural the United States and abroad. NECO was created in 1984 on the confidence that the assortment of the American humans is what makes this nation great.
Lana Todorovich with the almsman of the Circle of Hope Sponsor a Child Program
The Ellis Island Medals of Honor pay accolade to the ancestor groups that comprise America's different cultural mosaic. Todorovich grew up in Belgrade, Serbia, the above Yugoslavia, and immigrated to the United States in 1985. She acclimatized in New York area she was fatigued into the agitative apple of fashion, which became her calling and inspiration. Lana's career took her through assorted controlling positions in companies such as Jones New York and Gottex, afore landing her in Warnaco Inc. in 2000. Warnaco is a multi-billion all-around accoutrement baton that designs, sources, markets, and distributes articles beneath awful accustomed casting names, including Calvin Klein, Speedo, and Chaps. Lana currently holds the position of Senior Vice President for Warnaco's Calvin Klein (CKU) division.
In 2002, during a cruise to her homeland, Lana and her ancestors had the befalling to appointment several refugee centers in Serbia. Moved by this experience, Lana Todorovich accustomed the Circle of Hope Children's Foundation, with the mission of accouterment abatement to orphaned and refugee accouchement who were adversity from isolation, abjection and displacement due to the war in above Yugoslavia. The Foundation's antecedent ambition was to accommodate aid to accouchement who had absent their parents, or whose parents were clumsy to affliction for them in the after-effects of the war. Since its inception, however, the Foundation's goals accept broadened to cover carrying aid and anesthetic to orphanages in Serbia, carrying accouterment and aliment accoutrements to refugees in Kosovo and accouterment books and classroom abstracts to refugee accouchement from Bosnia. Moreover, Circle of Hope afresh broadcast its plan to the US by acknowledging after-school programs for burghal adolescence in the Bronx and distributing books and academy kits to abandoned accouchement in New York City.
Lana Todorovich will be accustomed at this year's celebration on Saturday, May 9th, 2009. The Ellis Island Medal of Honor ranks a allotment of this country's a lot of celebrated awards clearly accustomed by both the US Senate and the US House of Representatives. Six Presidents of the US accept accustomed this accolade as able-bodied as abounding Members of Congress, arresting scientists, athletes, entertainers, accumulated admiral and altruistic entrepreneurs.
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