Tyne Valley Chernobyl Children's Charity

 

Welcome to the Tyne Valley Chernobyl Children's Lifeline Link.
We are part of a national charity founded in 1992 by Victor Mizzi M.B.E. Our work is focused on four core activities:

Raising the funds to bring over 4,000 children here each year for four weeks of fresh air, uncontaminated food, fun, love and attention as well as dental and eye check ups.

Providing a basic income (when there is no state support) so that over 1,000 needy families can buy clean food.

 Building a laundry that also provides a regular supply of hot water for showers, and has become the focal point of the community.

Funding respite camps in Belarus for the children (and their families) who are too ill to travel.

These facilities also have specialist medical resources and nursing.

Imagine: Living the rest of your life in a radioactive polluted environment.

There is no escape. Money cannot buy protection.

Imagine: Eating food that may harm you, but what else can you do?

 Imagine: Coming to the UK and eating fresh food and breathing fresh air and going home with your immune system recharged.

Imagine: Knowing that people DO care.

The most disadvantaged have no option but to eat crops grown in the contaminated earth - a vicious cycle.
The Chernobyl Children's Life Line looks after children who are ill, organising respite breaks to the UK to give them a chance to live in a "clean" environment and eat uncontaminated foods for a month.

Some 43,000 children from Belarus have visited Britain since 1992.

During their stay all of the children receive medical attention such as dental care and having their eyes tested.

Doctors in the some of the cancer hospitals in Minsk (capital of Belarus) believe that the children returning from respite breaks have their life expectancy extended by up to two years.

This is due to the fact that their immune systems have a chance to recover as a result of the "clean" food and the lack of heavy background radiation in this country. Many of the host families keep in touch with the children and some invite them for return visits.