Chernobyl Children International
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About Chernobyl Children International
Chernobyl Children International (CCI) restores hope, alleviates suffering and protects current and future generations in the Chornobyl regions, by passionately advocating the rights of all of those affected. In partnership with indigenous organisations, CCI develops programmes to reduce poverty and improve the livelihoods of current and future generations of Chernobyl’s children.
CCI are the sole organisation working in the Chornobyl area to be honoured with UN official NGO status. CCI is a registered charity in Ireland, Belarus, USA, Holland and UK (Pending).
On 26 April 1986 at 01:23 the world changed forever when Reactor 4 in Chornobyl, Northern Ukraine, suffered a catastrophic power increase, leading to explosions in its core. The explosions sent clouds of radioactive gases and debris 7-9 kilometers into the atmosphere as 3% of the reactors 190 tons of fuel was expelled into the environment. 70% of the total fallout was deposited on Belarus. However large quantities of the fallout were deposited on Northern Ukraine and Western Russia. 5.5 million people across Belarus, Ukraine and Western Russia - including more than a million children - continue to live in contaminated zones. 9 million people living in the affected areas at the time of the disaster received the highest known exposure to radiation in the history of the atomic age. 400,000 people became environmental refugees. 2,000 towns and villages were deserted and bull-dozed into the ground.
In January 1991, Adi Roche received a fax message which changed her life – ‘SOS appeal. For God’s sake help us to get the children out’. This fax would lead to her founding Chernobyl Children International (CCI).
Her response was immediate and by the following summer she had coordinated and organised the first group of Chornobyl children to arrive in Ireland for recuperative holidays. CCI was founded in an effort to help alleviate the suffering and to offer hope to those most affected by the Chornobyl explosion.
CCI are the sole organisation working in the Chornobyl area to be honoured with UN official NGO status. CCI is a registered charity in Ireland, Belarus, USA, Holland and UK (Pending).
On 26 April 1986 at 01:23 the world changed forever when Reactor 4 in Chornobyl, Northern Ukraine, suffered a catastrophic power increase, leading to explosions in its core. The explosions sent clouds of radioactive gases and debris 7-9 kilometers into the atmosphere as 3% of the reactors 190 tons of fuel was expelled into the environment. 70% of the total fallout was deposited on Belarus. However large quantities of the fallout were deposited on Northern Ukraine and Western Russia. 5.5 million people across Belarus, Ukraine and Western Russia - including more than a million children - continue to live in contaminated zones. 9 million people living in the affected areas at the time of the disaster received the highest known exposure to radiation in the history of the atomic age. 400,000 people became environmental refugees. 2,000 towns and villages were deserted and bull-dozed into the ground.
In January 1991, Adi Roche received a fax message which changed her life – ‘SOS appeal. For God’s sake help us to get the children out’. This fax would lead to her founding Chernobyl Children International (CCI).
Her response was immediate and by the following summer she had coordinated and organised the first group of Chornobyl children to arrive in Ireland for recuperative holidays. CCI was founded in an effort to help alleviate the suffering and to offer hope to those most affected by the Chornobyl explosion.