The Victims of Chernobyl Children’s Trust is a Caldicot Charity run by a local couple, that has for the past 23 years funded bringing together a group of children from Belarus to Caldicot for about 6 weeks every summer.
The children all suffer from radiation related illness and many have lost their parents due to the ongoing effects of this disaster. Medical opinion is that a few weeks of fresh air and uncontaminated food and water can provide a two year boost to their immune systems, helping them to resist or recover from serious illness. Levels of radioactivity stored in the child’s organs can also fall dramatically in a one month period.
When they arrive many of the children have only the clothes they stand up in whilst others have been able to borrow clothes for the trip.
Their holidays in Caldicot gives them a warm friendly environment, with fresh air, plenty of activities and good food. Local organisations and societies host the children for day events and they enjoy such activities as sailing on the Usk, riding model steam trains at Cardiff, barbecues, walks in the forest and even McDonald’s!!
The current economic climate is hitting charities such as this really hard. The cost of bringing the children over increases every year and the bureaurocracy also increases every year. Please support this fund raising event and ensure this charitable work continues.
Please left click on the photo below, which shows children from Belarus and their interpreter hosted by the Cardiff Model Engineering Society 2010.
Also the poster, previously shown on this web-site (scroll down to Valentine’s Dance), gives details of a Valentine’s Dance to be held at the Choir Hall in aid of this deserving charity. Please try to give the JJR trio and Ellen James your full support.
