Chernobyl Children’s Project
(Newark & Retford)

It is now almost twenty years since the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in Ukraine.  But the children of Belarus, where most of the fallout landed, continue to suffer health problems caused by the radiation which will pollute much of their country for the next hundred years.

A 3 year old boy at the abandoned babies home in Gomel, with cancer of the kidneys.

Chernobyl Children’s Project (UK) is a charity which invites children from the affected area for holidays abroad, which give a major boost to their damaged immune systems. Doctors in Belarus say that four weeks of clean air, fresh food and a happy holiday improves the children’s health for at least two years and gives them a better chance of either recovering from or avoiding serious illness.

Daniil (aged 6) on a visit to Newark last year, was diagnosed with Leukamia as a baby.

Many of the children invited by Chernobyl Children’s Project (UK) are in remission from cancer; others may have diabetes, mild disabilities or may be children who do not yet have any major health problems but live in very contaminated parts of the country.  

Seven young children in remission from cancer who visited Newark last year.

Chernobyl Children’s Project (UK) also supports a number of projects in Belarus, including an abandoned babies home, a children’s home and a children’s hospice.
For more information on CCP (UK) and our work in Belarus, please visit our website on www.chernobyl-children.org.uk