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The Chernobyl Project
Peter Katin has supported several charities in the past, and he has given no less than
twelve recitals which have raised vital funds for the Chernobyl Children’s Project (UK).
Here is a little information about the charity:
On April 26th 1986 there was an explosion at a nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, on the
border between Ukraine and Belarus. Many tons of radioactive materials were thrown
into the air.
Hundreds of towns and villages were evacuated, and the entire country was declared a
zone of international ecological disaster.
In Southern Belarus thyroid cancer in children has increased by more than a hundred
times, due to the large amounts of radioactive iodine they have ingested, and there
have been rises in many other types of cancer.
THE CHERNOBYL CHILDREN’S PROJECT (UK) was launched in 1995, and now the charity
includes 35 groups throughout the UK. Holidays abroad can boost the children’s
immune systems and increase resistance to serious disease.
The Gomel region in Belarus, the country next to Chernobyl in the Ukraine, was
most severely contaminated by the Chernbyl nuclear disaster in 1987. This area
has a high incidence of thyroid cancer and diabetes. DIABETES UK is supporting
those children suffering with this disease by supplying essential blood testing
equipment in order for them to manage this serious condition.
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