Humanitarian

Chernobyl Children International are heavily engaged in a whole number of Humanitarian efforts, aside from our various medical, community and construction based programmes.

We provide physical aid to some of the most deprived regions of the effected Chernobyl area, giving those suffering the effects of the disaster a means to survive in some of the most horriffic conditions.

  • Aid Direct

    The Chernobyl disaster devastated the economy of Belarus, costing billions of dollars in cleanup and lost productivity while leaving its inhabitants displaced, without arable land and ravaged with radiation sickness and disease.
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  • Research

    Chernobyl was the biggest nuclear disaster the world has ever seen, releasing 200 times the radiation collectively produced by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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  • Working with the UN

    At the Millenium Summit in September 2000 the largest gathering of world leaders in history adopted the UN Millenium Declaration,
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  • Awareness

    Unfortunately, Chernobyl’s radioactive waste has a lifespan far longer than most people’s memories.
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    22,500+

    children brought from radiation zones to homes in Ireland for rest & recuperation.
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    92 million+

    in direct and indirect humanitarian aid to the Chernobyl region.

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  • 200%

    increase in birth defects affecting children born since 1986.

  • 99%

    contaminated land in Belarus. Exclusion zone can never be lived in again.

  • 250%

    increase in congenital birth deformities affecting children born since 1986.

  • 7 million

    people received highest known exposure in history of atomic age.
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