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Belarus-American Child Health Foundation

"The Belarus-American Child Health Foundation is a publicly funded, nonprofit charitable organization. Donations are tax deductible. The Foundation is supported through grants from private foundations, corporations, government agencies, and individuals dedicated to the health of children. Amongst the greatest priorities for Belarus is the health of its children."

Mission of the Belarus-American Child Health Foundation

The Foundation was founded exclusively to undertake and financially support activities designed to improve and enhance the health of children in Eastern and Central Europe, with a special concern for the children from Belarus.

Current Foundation support in Belarus includes:

A Cancer Registry for Children
A University Children's Medical Center
The US/Belarus Health Sciences Education Academy
The Clinical Management of Radiation Induced Thyroid Cancer
Contemporary Continuing Pediatric Education for Doctors and Nurses
Treatment of the Major Cause of Peptic Ulcer Disease Associated with Stomach Cancer
A Reduction in the Burden of Environmental Toxins on Children
A Model Network for Neonatal and Perinatal Care

Belarus-American Child Health Foundation
P.O. Box 71094
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA

E-Mail: bach@trfn.clpgh.org

Belarus-American Child Health Foundation Web site

Canadian Relief Fund For Chernobyl Victims in Belarus

"In 1989 we were a small group of Canadians of Belarusian descent, who were deeply concerned about the unpublicized "Chernobyl" after-effects in Belarus. We saw a great need in Belarus and wanted to help. So we organized an appeal to Canadians to help the people in Belarus. That was the year that we created the non-profit charitable organization the Canadian Relief Fund for Chernobyl Victims in Belarus."

"Over the last seven years many Canadians have responded. We have grown to a grass-roots volunteer organization of hundreds of Canadian families in 32 communities across Canada with one objective to help the victims of "Chernobyl" in Belarus. These Canadians have given selflessly of their time, talents, resources and of themselves to bring hundreds of Belarusian children to Canada for health-improving visits and to deliver thousands of pounds of humanitarian supplies to Belarus. My heartfelt thank you goes out to them all. Their love and generosity has touched the lives of children and their families in Belarus and given them hope for their future."

How the Fund Provides Relief to Belarusian Children.

"The Fund provides relief to Belarusian children in five main ways:

• It removes them from their contaminated environment and provides respite care for them in Canadian homes for six to 10 weeks each summer.
• It provides medical supplies and equipment to Belarusian hospitals.
• It brings Belarusian doctors and nurses to Canada to observe Canadian techniques in dealing with radiation-related illness, and sends Canadian doctors and dentists to Belarus for support and research.
• It encourages Belarusian children at several Schools for the Arts by exhibiting their works in Canada.
• It is developing an internet project directed to assist schools and educators in Belarus."

  Contact: Maggi McLeod - Executive Director (1999)

  National Office:

  Canadian Relief Fund For Chernobyl Victims in Belarus
  190 Bronson Avenue,
  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  K1R 6H4

  Tel: +1 613-567-9595
  Fax: +1 613-567-9971

  E-mail: crfcvb@cyberus.ca

  Web site: Canadian Relief Fund For Chernobyl Victims in Belarus

Chieri Chornobyl Children's Aid (near Torino, Italy)

I have neither the formal name nor complete information about this group.

This group brings children to this town in Italy for recuperation. In the summer of 1997, 78 children from Belarus will participate.

The group is looking for more information about Belarus (living conditions, radiation maps, and so forth) so that they can better help these children.

Contact: Carlo Cerutti
V.le Don Bosco, 14
10023 Chieri (TO)
Italy

E-Mail: charlie92@hotmail.com

Children of Chernobyl -- US Alliance (CofCUSA)

Mission Statement: To offer care, compassion, relief and hope to the people of the Chernobyl Region, especially the children.

"The Children of Chernobyl, U.S. Alliance (CofCUSA) is a humanitarian, tax exempt corporation that is dedicated to helping the children and their families affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. We do this by:"

• establishing and maintaining contact with individuals and organizations in the contaminated regions,

• providing support services to the many grassroots community groups who provide health recuperation respites for the Chernobyl children in the United States each summer;

• obtaining medical, dental supplies and humanitarian aid to the affected areas;

• increasing public awareness of the issues."

  Contact: Cecelia (Cec) Calhoun, President

  Children of Chernobyl -- US Alliance
  P.O.Box 213
  Ellensburg, WA 98926

  WWW: www.cofcusa.org

  E-Mail: cofcusa@ellensburg.com

Children of Chernobyl of San Diego

"Children of Chernobyl of San Diego is an all volunteer organization whose sole purpose is to reach out to some of the hundreds of thousands of children who live in Belarus, a former Soviet republic, which received 70% of the radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear explosion."

"Ours is a project in which still healthy 8 - 12 year old youngsters, living in contaminated areas of Belarus, are hosted by San Diego families every summer."

Children of Chernobyl of San Diego is a project of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego.

See the following Children of Chernobyl of San Diego section for further information, including schedule of fund-raising events, children's summer visits, etc.

Children of Chernobyl of San Diego
a project of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego
4190 Front Street
San Diego, CA 92103 USA

Tel: (619) 699-2411

E-Mail: cofcsd@yahoo.com

WWW: http://www.cofcsd.org/

For the Children of Chernobyl   Mensk, Belarus

WWW: http://www.css.minsk.by/charity/

Chairman of the Board: Prof. Dr. Guennady Groushevoy




Belarusian Charitable Fund For the Children of Chernobyl
14, Starovilenskaya Str.
Miensk BY-220029
Republic of Belarus

Tel: +375 (17) 234 21 53;   234 12 15
FAX: +375 (17) 234 34 58

Belarusian Charitable Fund For the Children of Chernobyl in the USA

For information in the U.S., contact:

Nancy Neal Oldenettel
Federal Way, WA, USA

Tel. (206) 946-9241

Chernobyl Children's Project

"The Chernobyl Children's Project is a registered charity set up to help child victims of the world's worst nuclear disaster, which took place on 26th April 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Ukraine. The Project started in response to a desperate appeal faxed to the Irish CND office in Cork in 1991 from doctors caring for children in the Chernobyl-affected country of Belarus."

The message was: "S.O.S. Appeal. For God's sake, help us to get the children out."

"As a result of this fax, office volunteer Adi Roche organised the first visit of Chernobyl children to Ireland, visited Belarus herself and went on to become Executive Director of this special charity to help the children of Belarus and Western Russia. Since then, thanks to the work of Adi Roche, the Project team, and to the support and generosity of literally thousands of Irish people, the Project has gone from strength to strength. In l996, the tenth anniversary year of the disaster, "Chernobyl Children's Project" is sending out the biggest ever convoy of medical and humanitarian aid to leave Ireland for the Chernobyl region, valued at approx. £2 million, and is bringing over 1,000 Chernobyl children to Ireland in the summer."

"The Chernobyl Children's Project Limited is a Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in Dublin, Ireland. No. 211588 Registered Charity No. CHY 11477."

Directors: Adi Roche, William Grant, Eoin Dinan, Mary Ahern, and Helen Barrett.

The Chernobyl Children's Project

For the Children of the World

"for the children of the world   is a non-profit corporation {501(c)(3)}in the State of Washington. . . . "

About the Health Respite Program

"We host children from the country of Belarus. 70% of the radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster fell on Belarus. The children there suffer from a breakdown of their immune system due to constant bombardment by radiation. . . ."

for the children
PO Box 718
Milton, WA 98354

Tel: (253) 838-6745

Contact: Tom Watson   (President)

WWW: http://www.forworldschildren.org/

E-mail: tom@forworldschildren.org

Friends of Belarus (Spain)

I don't have much information about the group at the moment, but look at their Web site for details.

Spanish-language Web site: Friends of Belarus

Contact: Pedro Escobar Fernandez

Friendship Over Borders (Denmark)

"Friendship over Borders is a humanitarian organization the object of which is:

• to disseminate knowledge of Belarus

• to lend humanitarian aid to the organization's adopted town, viz. Rubel, a small village situated in the southern part of [Belarus] - appr. 250 km east of the frontier town of Brest

• to invite children from Rubel to stay in Denmark for part of the summer."

Danish-language Web site (with some English): Friendship Over Borders     (www.venskab.dk)

Foreningen Venskab over Grænser
Englandsvej 290
Denmark 2770 Kastrup

Contact: venskab@venskab.dk

Fund For Chornobyl Victims In Belarus

9 River Road
Highland Park, NJ 08904

Tel: (732) 254-6527
FAX: (732) 254-8951

Contact: Alex Silwanowicz

E-mail: asilwano@ix.netcom.com or : asilwanowi@gnn.com

Fund "Sakavik"

The Fund is concerned with Chornobyl radiation relief, orphans, convalescence, and handicapped children. The Fund has particularly strong ties with Britain and the Republic of Ireland, co-operating with a number of charitable organisations based on the British Isles, primarily, the Chernobyl Children Charity, based in Rye, Sussex, and the Victims of Chernobyl Children Fund, based in Newport, Wales. In the summer of 2000, the Fund brought children from the Kamaryn and Brahin areas of Belarus to the British Isles.

Additional information about them on the Belarusians in Great Britain and Ireland Web site:

"We Are Aiming To Be Equal Partner, Not Mere Recipient Of Aid"   (Belarusian News Bulletin, July, 2000)

Fund ""Sakavik" is in Britain Again: New Scottish Connection   (Belarusian News Bulletin, February, 2001)




Contact: Maria Mitskevich, Chairperson

Tel: (375) 172 284 14 80
FAX: (375) 172 246 88 44

E-mail: sakavik@usa.net




Note: Also see additional UK information: Links to United Kingdom (Great Britain & Northern Ireland) Organizations

Hilfe Für Die Kinder Von Tschernobyl     Munich, Germany

"I am proud to announce our new web site regarding our activities with helping the children of Tschernobyl. Hilfe Für Die Kinder Von Tschernobyl".
Go to this web site to read the report and view pictures of their latest truck convoy to Belarus. This convoy started in Munich on October 25, 1996, traveled to Mensk and Smorgon, and returned on November 3, 1996.

"As far as I know, this is the first web site from a German Tschernobyl-helping organisation on the internet. This site is still under construction and changes from time to time."

Our local, private Tschernobyl-Helping-Initiative is a member of the German-wide "Deutscher Verband für Tschernobylhilfe", located in Munich. In this organisation, many groups and initiatives are members. We work together closely with the Tschernobyl-Helping-Fund in Gomel, Belarus.

Our helping projects are in the city of Smorgon, north of Mensk.

We have four projects:

• Bringing medicine and medical equipment to a children's doctor in Smorgon.
• Bringing parcels with clean food to Chornobyl-families and to old persons and families with many children.
• Bringing medicine, food, sweets, and clothes to an orphanage in Smorgon with about 200 children between the ages of 3 and 16.
• Having a kind of sponsorship for 5 children who have problems withthe thyroid because of the radioactive fallout from Chornobyl. For the amount of DM 100.--/child, they will have medical analysis and medicine for the next 5 years.

Contact:   Monika & Remco Castner

Note: Mr. Castner also graciously supplies the Radio Mensk information for this web site.

Living with Chornobyl     Gomel, Belarus

See Hilfe Für Die Kinder Von Tschernobyl web site for information in German, about this organization.

Gomeler Gebiets-Fond, Leben mit Tschernobyl

17, Uliza Sovietskaya
Belarus 246000 Gomel

Tel. : 00375-232-537182, 537277, 536913
Fax. : 00375-232-537398
mobil.: 00375-172-767868

President: Nikolai Stelmach

Medical Emergencies and Poison Control Centre

Miensk Municipal Hospital
Kizhevatova str. 58, Miensk
Contact: Dr H. Karpuk
Tel: (7)78.81.21

above info from: http://biomed.nus.sg/PID/PCC/pc016.html

Operation Belarus

Gerald Z. Wright, D.D.S., M.S.D., F.R.C.D.(C)
Professor and Chairman Division of Orthodontonics and Pediatric Dentistry
Faculty of Dentistry
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada NGA 5C1

Tel: 519-661-4098; FAX: 519-661-3879
E-mail: DENGZW@UWOADMIN.UWO.CA

Operation Belarus information from The Virtual Guide to Belarus

Links to United Kingdom (Great Britain & Northern Ireland) Organizations

WWW: www.chernobyl.org.uk

Charities and other organisations involved in helping the people of Belarus and Ukraine, particularly the children who are suffering from the effects of the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) disaster.

World Vision in the NIS

"We look to serve needy children and families in the most direct way possible, and so we are committed to be present where the need is: outside of Moscow, in the areas of the Chernobyl-ridden zone (Ukraine and Belarus), the Ural valley (Ekaterinburg), the conflict-prone North-Caucusus and the unknown Russian Far East in Chita. A small number of staff coordinate activities out of Moscow, while our emphasis of activity is on those outlying areas: our staff are located where the needs are, and serve to bring the needy to a new level of coping with a changing society."

"World Vision talks about 'holistic' change - the change that affects every area of life. Programs are, therefore, diverse: there are projects in health reform, environmental issues, spiritual leadership, emergency relief, economic development and employment training. Each of these issues can be addressed in the Urals, Far East, Belarus, Ukraine, the North-Caucusus."

Major Headings on the   World Vision in the NIS   web site:

Nursing Education Reform Project - Russia
Management Training Project (MTP)
The Children of Chernobyl
"New Beginnings" Prenatal Program in Gomel
The Christian Resource Center
The Duchovnost Center in Belarus
Present and Future Projects
Other organizations working in the NIS
An Overview of the Chernobyl Disaster

World Vision International


800 West Chestnut Avenue, Monrovia, CA 91016-3198 USA
6 Chemin de la Tourelle, 1209 Geneva, Switzerland

World Vision International   home page

World Vision in the NIS   on the Friends and Partners Web site.     This WV-NIS Web page seems to be out of date, summer, 1997.

E-mail Contact: Dmitri Lihuto, World Vision Belarus Program Manager

See also information about International Sakharov Institute of Radioecology, ISIR (Miensk)