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 not receive the operations they need to survive, and will die within 2 - 5 years. Chernobyl Children International sends volunteer surgery teams to perform free operations and save lives. This is our second mission of six this year.

Our intervention has saved the lives of hundreds of children in Ukraine and Belarus who suffer from a marked increase in cardiac birth defects since the Chernobyl disaster.  You can support this work when you donate online now.