What We Do

Nursing Programme

 
Chernobyl Children’s Project International staffs, trains and pays local health professionals to work in understaffed children’s institutions in Belarus. A team of professionals travels monthly to Belarus to manage and oversee the programme and offer support to their Belarusian counterparts.

The programme not only provides an immediate and significant improvement in the quality of life and medical care of the children in the mental asylums but also provides long term hope for the communities in Belarus by providing training and employment for local health care professionals. By working in partnership with Belarusian health professionals, CCPI are helping the citizens of Belarus to help themselves - the key to long term change.

• Haemophiliac Programme

  CCPI have developed working relationships with the Gomel Haemophiliacs Association and assists the organisation in providing care to haemophiliac children in Belarus. The purpose of this association is to enable this organisation to offer a better service to clients so that it can intervene in effective ways to help those in greatest need of assistance.
  CCPI provides blood products and other vital medical supplies to the Gomel Haemophiliacs Society and on a yearly basis we liaise with this organisation in identifying children in most need of summer breaks in Ireland. Under this programme several hundred children have travelled to Ireland for such breaks.
  CCPI have also developed relationships with the Irish Haemophiliacs Society and make decisions with their help on the best care of children with haemophilia when they arrive for their Irish recuperative holidays.

• Speech Therapist / Special Needs Teacher

  The Vesnovo Children’s Mental Asylum is made up of eight individual units where the children in each have different needs. Having put a therapeutic structure in place in the high dependency unit CCPI are now evaluating the children in Unit 2 to assess where each child is at - intellectually, socially, and academically - so an educational programme can be devised to work to each child’s strengths and thus increase his/her motivation for learning. Following assessment a curriculum will be drawn up for the children as well as individual education plans which would specify the strengths, weaknesses and goals to be achieved by each child within a given period.
  
  This programme proved to be an outstanding success and became the model for our involvement in other institutions. The development of this programme has been made possible by the large number of Irish health professionals who have given willingly of their time to help improve the quality of care to the children in these institutions.
  
  CCPI is continually identifying new projects in which to become involved and is continually seeking sponsorship for this worthwhile programme. Further details can be had on how you can help by contacting the Project office headquarters. Please go to the Contact Us section.

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