We are looking for Irish volunteers for CCPI's Cardiac Programme. Specifically, we need: physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, perfusionists, & biomedical engineers. If this is you, we would love to hear from you! Or perhaps you know someone who fits this description and you could put them in touch with us.

CCPI will hold the charity's first ever Spring Raffle this April in the hope of raising much-needed funds for our Cardiac Programme.

Odd Molly and Helena Christensen have joined forces and designed a beautiful bed-linen range for the benefit of the forgotten victims of the Chernobyl disaster. For every set of bed linen sold, a donation of $25 will be made to Chernobyl Children's Project International. To buy a set please visit the Odd Molly website http://oddmolly.com/campaign/hc-bed-linen

Dr. Novick, the lead cardiac surgeon on Chernobyl Children's Project International's child cardiac programme, received the high honour of Ukraine's Orden Medal in a ceremony at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington DC on December 29th. Chernobyl Children's Project International plans to send volunteer surgical teams to Ukraine 4 - 6 times in 2010, where they will perform free operations on children and train local physicians. Every year in Ukraine, 6000 children are born with genetic heart defects. Over one half of them will not get the surgery they need to survive and will die.

Over 80 children from the most disadvantaged areas in the Chernobyl-affected regions arrived into Dublin on Tuesday 22nd December to be reunited with their Irish host families for Christmas. The children are part of Chernobyl Children's Project International vital Long-term Care Programme. We would like to extend our warmest thanks to all the individuals and companies who very generously donated and supported our Christmas Gift Appeal.