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new photos and video: kharkiv ukraine chernobyl heart kids
We've just posted a gallery of photos of some of the 18 children whose lives were saved by a volunteer cardiac surgery team that visited Ukraine last month. Visit the Kharkiv Cardiac Kids photo album ...
pfizer cycles for chernobyl
Over 200 volunteer Pfizer employees and friends cycled from Cork, Ireland to Galway on June 14 to benefit Chernobyl Children's Project International. Pfizer is a long time supporter of CCPI. The Annua...
chernobyl music video and song: your download is a donation
This haunting and charming music video by Arkansas based band Cedar-N-Sage captures a moment when a teenage girl shakes off her melancholy by getting involved in a larger purpose: Helping the most vul...
physical therapy volunteer in action & very special chernobyl children off to camps
Pediatric physical and occupational therapist Marisa C. Birkmeier is one of hundreds of Chernobyl Children's Project International volunteers who donate their professional skills to help children affe...
video: "voices from chernobyl" performance & community fundraising idea
You can click on the video above to watch an emotional theatrical reading from Voices from Chornobyl. (If you are reading this on a feed or email you might need to go directly to our website.) The vid...
student campers take "chernobyl heart challenge," & save a life
Last year Delaware mom Julie Klabunde and her daughter, Riley, saw Chernobyl Heart, the 2004 film that follows Chernobyl Children's Project International through Chernobyl affected regions of Belarus....
ccpi launches chernobyl video channel on youtube
Now you can learn about the Chernobyl disaster through video -- including videos showing Chernobyl Children's Project International at work -- on our new CCPI Channel on YouTube. Go there by clicking ...
video: watch ccpi volunteers in action in chernobyl affected regions
This 10-minute video was filmed in the fall by Ireland's RTE television, and shows Chernobyl Children's Project International volunteers in action in the Mogilev region of Belarus. One of the children...
you are invited: reception at united nations, april 22
The Permanent Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the United Nations, in cooperation with Chernobyl Children's Project International and Mondano, present: ZOYA: An exhibition of new work by B...
program keeps disabled children at home, not in orphanages
In previous updates we've shown how devastating life is for mentally or physically disabled children who live out their lives in orphanages. And, without intervention, the grim future they face as ins...
video: cbs news reports on chernobyl "nightmare" and containment efforts
This CBS video report is on the status of the 10 year and running project to safely contain the destroyed nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. We picked up the clip from Mark Resnicoff's excellent Chernobyl ...
zhila family: children heal wounds of tragic past, face hopeful future
Two weeks ago, we visited the Zhila family in the Ossipovichi, Mogliev region of Belarus. The Zhilas are a part of Chernobyl Children's Project International's foster families program -- we take child...
part 2: real stories from soltanovka asylum for mentally ill
Last week I wrote about my recent visit to Soltanovka, a state institution for about 200 mentally disabled adults in the Mogilev region of Belarus. I described it as a place where mentally disabled pe...
end of childhood: a visit to soltanovka asylum for adults
Last week I walked through mud to a ???potter???s field??? just outside the Vesnova children???s mental asylum in southwest Belarus. I was visiting the fresh graves of two children who were well loved...
lombard illinois students on "chernobyl heart" mission
A few months ago, I received an email from Glenbard East High student Hannah Reneau. Her teacher, Chris Vandenberg, had assigned his Lombard, IL students to research a social need then take an action ...
cedar-n-sage donate song to chernobyl children's project international
Long time Chernobyl Children's Project International supporters and band Cedar-N-Sage have come up with another way to help families and communities affected by Chernobyl. By clicking on the image bel...
thievery corporation & chernobyl 20 spark support for children
Last week I was honored to receive a check from lounge/electronica band Thievery Corporation and Mondano ("World Citizen') Mondano is a Washington DC based alliance that ignites transnational cultural...
chernobyl children's project international appoints youth un representative
A young woman of Ukrainian heritage, Christina Stegura has grown up hearing stories about Chernobyl, and hoped that there might come a time when she could help. Now she will, and in a very substantial...
chernobyl shut down plans continue as belarus plans new nuclear plant
Several months ago I noted that Ukraine signed a $505 million contract with Novarka to build a new shelter for the ruined Chernobyl nuclear reactor. This new shelter is to replace the hastily construc...
story: strangers join talents to help chernobyl children
CCPI supporters Derek Casari and Perry Norton recently surprised us with the gift of radio public service announcements (PSAs). Click on the player below to listen to one, and then read on for the sto...
photo essay: chernobyl seen by children
In March 2006 Unicef organized a photography workshop for children who live in Chernobyl affected communities in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. Each of the kids, aged 12 to 17, was born after the Chern...
video: vesnova children's mental asylum -- another chernobyl legacy
This is a short video that Chernobyl Children's Project International made for the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. You can watch it now and, at the end of the post, write a comment to let ...
chernobyl: the life saving gift at work
I can't look at this picture without imagining how I might feel to see my own child in an intensive care unit, hooked up to tubes and wires and hissing electronic equipment. Only days ago, this child'...
chernobyl heart: i want to save a child's life for christmas
It's only December 1, but I already know what I want for Christmas: I want to save one child's life. I'm hoping you will help me -- I've never asked you for anything before, have I? This spring, Chern...
chernobyl and getting on with it
This photo is from a series by Don Weber. It's called Bastard Eden: Chernobyl at Twenty. His book of photos is due out this spring. I love these photos, and as I look at them I wonder -- why? I think ...
the little ears and what I learned
I have a memory of a child I met at the Vesnova Asylum in a Chernobyl affected region of rural Belarus. His photo is to the left. He was in terrible discomfort. At the base of each earlobe, he had a b...
100+ chernobyl volunteers set to return home today
Over 100 Irish, Australian and American volunteers will return home today after spending three weeks in Chernobyl affected regions of Belarus. We employ about 20 local staff in Belarus, have partnersh...