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  Anastasia lives in a Chernobyl Children International Home of Hope in the Minsk Region of Belarus. A report from a recent visit:  Anastasia, a sociable 17 year old girl, tells us that she doesn’t want to talk about her ...

  I felt shock and sadness as Natasha -- a single mother living in Gomel, Belarus -- showed me the effort she must make to feed her son, Sasha. Sasha was born healthy, but suffered irreversible brain damage during a ...

  Photographer Gerd Ludwig has introduced a beautifully crafted and fascinating app for the iPad called The Long Shadow of Chernobyl. Spanning nearly two decades of documentation, the app explores the human and environmental impact since the disaster, including ...

I am joyful to announce that within days we will move 12 physically and mentally disabled young women out of an institution and into a home of their own -- a home where they will live independently for the first time!  These girls have ...

  My name is Andrea Keogh. I met Maryna in 2007, when I made my first volunteer visit to the Vesnova institution.   We became instant friends.  She is ten years old. I don’t know much about her background.  I know that ...

My name is Carmel Mulchrone.  I am a psychiatric nurse.  I started volunteering for the Chernobyl Children International medical team in 2005, and I have been making visits to the Vesnova children’s institution since then.   On my most recent visit this past month, I ...

  A few weeks ago, I visited a run down and ill equipped children's hospital in Kharkiv, Ukraine. A volunteer surgical team funded by CCI worked alongside local medical teams to perform free heart operations.  The first bed I stopped ...

  "Supportive care" -- the care of children with severe disabilities and life limiting conditions. Chernobyl Children International cares for these children through our hospice programs in Minsk and Gomel, as well as at Vesnova institution in Mogilev. In partnership ...

  Three year old Kiril is a huge fan of the old cartoon Who's First -- a Soviet era favorite about a race between a bear, a fox, and a rabbit.  He also loves to swim and play in a ...

  Please join us in sending best wishes to the volunteer children's heart surgery team that has just landed in Kharkiv, Ukraine! Every year, 6000 children are born in Ukraine with heart defects.  More than half of these chldren will ...