Each summer Chernobyl Children’s Project (UK) brings around 150 children to Britain for a recuperative holiday. It also organises holidays in clean parts of Belarus for children whose disabilities make it difficult for them to travel.

Many of the children brought to the UK are in remission from leukaemia or cancer. They are chosen by an organisation in Minsk called Children in Trouble, which is run by parents of children with cancer.

Holidays abroad are vital for their children, particularly in their teens, when many fall ill for a second or third time, and the death rate is very high.

The project also includes groups of very young children who come for a holiday with their mothers.

For more information, visit:

http://www.chernobyl-children.org.uk/