This project will provide medical care to children affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. The services CCI provides have reached out to almost 1 million children and their families. CCI volunteers have transformed the once frightening Children's Mental Asylum at Vesnova, 175 KM from Chernobyl, into a world-class child care centre from which CCI directs medical care programmes. A donation can underwrite care for a child like Igor who suffers from multiple heart defects.
There are 170 children living in Vesnova Children's Mental Asylum, orphaned or disabled due to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. CCI continues to improve these children's quality of life and continues to work on deinstitutionalisation.
CCI provides medical care and nursing staff to Vesnova Children's Mental Asylum in order to improve the quality of life of these children living in the institution. Every month Irish and US medical and nursing teams travel to Vesnova to oversee the ground breaking rehabilitation work pioneered there and to help train local staff.
We will continue to care for the forgotten children of Chernobyl and continue to provide them with the care that they deserve. CCI will continue to work on its deinstitutionalisation programme, getting children and young adults out of institutions and into loving family homes and independent living homes.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
