CHERNOBYL CHILDREN'S TRUST

This weekend sees the arrival of our children from Belarus for their summer break, with our host families in East Cork and West Waterford.

Some of these children have been coming here for many summers past, and what a difference it has made to them, in terms of health and outlook, over the intervening years.

Our age groups range from seven years of age to eighteen. Some of us may find it strange to think that we would allow one of our children at the tender age of seven to head off to a foreign country where they couldn’t even speak the language. But such is the care and attention our volunteers and host families extend to these children everything is pre-planned with the utmost attention to detail to ensure they are well cared for in every way.

This year we have close on ten new children for the first time ever to Ireland, which we hope will be the start of many years to come. Our sincere thanks once again to our host families who invite these children under their roofs entirely in a voluntary capacity. Without these generous people we simply couldn’t afford to bring the children.

Wishing you all a happy a great summer, host families and children.

While our attention is fully focused on the children at the moment, we still carry on our work within the boundaries of Belarus and next month we will have children who are too ill to travel to Ireland, spend a period of weeks in a holiday camp/medical centre within Belarus.

Some of our volunteers from our group will stay in the camp with the children, during this period.

Glad to report that our truck-loads of humanitarian aid have safely arrived and are distributed to needy families in Belarus. This was a mammoth exercise, which again would not have been possible without your donations throughout the past year, of clothes, footwear and house hold items, so again our sincere thanks to you all. All we ask for now is loads of sunshine for the coming month. So we can hit the beaches with a vengeance with the kids.

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