What We Do
Hospice & Community Care Programme
“We must ensure that we help people to help themselves, to regain a normalcy in their lives and leave the legacy of Chernobyl behind them, as much as possible.”
(United-Secretary-General Mr. Kenzo Oshima United Nations Coordinator of International Cooperation on Chernobyl)
Community Care Programme
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Identifying ways to assist the people of the Chernobyl Zone to overcome many of the problems associated with the nuclear disaster is the key to the work of the Chernobyl Children’s Project International. Through its work in the Chernobyl Zone the Project has seen at first hand the devastation suffered by individuals, families and communities throughout the region.
Uppermost in CCPI’S aims is to develop projects and programmes which, in addition to offering humanitarian assistance, enable communities throughout the region to look to the future with renewed hope. The most effective way of achieving this, CCPI has learned, is to develop close working relationships with local organisations and community groups who are best-placed to identify the emerging needs of local people. 
Through contact with these groups, we have come to a clearer understanding of how best to contribute to the long-term development of the region. Helping people to help themselves is a key element in our philosophy. This will only be achieved by working alongside indigenous organisations by enabling them to deliver a range of effective services to ordinary individuals, families and local communities.
CCPI works very closely with local agencies to deliver a wide range of services to disadvantaged families, the disabled, the terminally-ill, and children at-risk. To ensure sustainable recovery from the many crippling economic and social consequences of the Chernobyl disaster we have developed several programmes delivering a range of services, from Day Care Centres, 'Homes of Hope', Hospice Care and Hemophiliac Treatment.
As part of CCPI's Community Care Programme, the project provides medical equipment to outpatient clinics for disabled children and children experiencing delays in learning and development, as well as professional therapeutic services such as speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and psychologists.
Hospice Care Programme
CCPI has also developed close working relationships with Associations such as Gomel Hospice in providing assistance to families who wish to care for their terminally-ill children at home. Under this Programme, children can die with dignity in the comfort of their own homes with their families.
CCPI provides invaluable 24 hour assistance for family members, including nursing care, medical supplies, blood products and therapeutic care. The Project's Irish Medical Co-Ordinator works very closely with her Belarusian counterparts and through monthly Medical Team visits to Belarus, ensures that care plans and programmes for each of the Hospice Care children are carried out and assessed on an ongoing basis.
