What is a Chernobyl Child?
Every child in Belarus is a deserving child, regardless of social background and family circumstances. Belarus is a developing country that has suffered most from the fall-out caused by the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986. Many of the children who come to the UK may appear normal and healthy, but they are all subjected to the effects of radiation, and that is increasingly obvious by the numbers of children born with deformities, or suffering from cancers and other radiation related illnesses. Their plight is often worsened by lack of medical facilities, contaminated food, shortage of medicines, lack of nutrition, poor and over crowded living conditions, unemployment, and difficult family circumstances. Each child will be different, but few will have enjoyed the comforts and facilities we take so much for granted. Many of the children will have been uprooted from the countryside because of radiation problems and relocated in towns, living in overcrowded flats in tower blocks. They ma
