I always get a variety of responses when people find out about this project. They range from “Are you Russian?” to “What an uplifting topic” to “Why Chernobyl?”
Why Chernobyl? Why is help needed?
Through all of my initial research, one sentence kept prevailing: We simply do not know how radiation exposure affects a region over twenty, thirty, one hundred years. We simply have never had an accident of this magnitude to study.
Well, now we approach the 23rd year after the accident, and the children of Belarus are suffering. If the people are lucky enough to become pregnant at all, or to carry a pregnancy to term, the likelihood of those children (now 3rd generation after the accident) will lead healthy lives, or even lives outside of a hospital.
That is why we must help Chernobyl.
Take a look through the following links. If you are an Artist in any genre, a Patron of the Arts, an Educator or Community Leader, there ARE ways to help without sending money. Email cindy@voicesfromchornobyl.com and ask how.
A Ray of Hope
www.unesco.co.uk
Belarusian Ray of Hope
www.chernobylchild.org
Burren Chernobyl Project
www.burrenchernobyl.ie
Canadian Aid For Chernobyl
www.canadianaidforchernobyl.com/cac
Chernobyl Children’s Appeal Ireland
www.chernobylappeal.ie
Chernobyl Children Lifeline
www.chernobylchildlifeline.org
Chernobyl Children West Norfolk
www.chernobylchildwestnorfolk.org.uk
Chernobyl Children’s Project International
www.chernobyl.typepad.com
Chernobyl Children’s Project (UK)
www.chernobyl-children.org.uk
Chernobyl Continuity
www.rememberchernobyl.org/chernobylcontinuity.htm
Children of Chernobyl Fund Wells Area
www.wells-uk.com/children_of_chernobyl/index.html
Children of Chernobyl UK e-mail discussion forum
www.groups.yahoo.com/group/CofCUK
Friends of Chernobyl’s Children
www.focc.org.uk
The Greater Chernobyl Cause
corcoranfiona@eircom.net
Heart Hope Help
www.hearthopehelp.net
Hope for Families in Belarus
HopeforFamilies@hotmail.com
Medicine & Chernobyl (UK)
www.medicine-chernobyl.org
Remember Chernobyl
www.rememberchernobyl.org
Samaritan’s Purse
www.samaritanspurse.uk.com
Sasha’s Blog
www.shrinersgift.canadianaidforchernobyl.com
SOS Children’s Villages
www.soschildren.org
Trust for Chernobyl Children (Surrey and Kent)
Yburdge@aol.com
West Oxfordshire Vetka Association
www.wova.org.uk