Related Chernobyl Links
    

Chernobyl Children's Lifeline
Chernobyl Children Life Line (CCLL) was founded in 1992 in Haslemere, Surrey. This is the main charity website. The charity is made up of 145 ‘Links’ throughout the UK, of which the INVERNESS LINK is one. CCLL’s main aims are:
To provide recuperative 1 month holidays for approximately 3500 Belarusian children every year.
Over 40,000 children have had holidays in Britain since 1992.
To provide on-going supplies of healthcare products.
To work with Belarusian partners in Minsk and Gomel to identify children in need of recuperative care.
To help children too sick to travel by providing chemotherapy medicines for children’s
cancer hospitals in Minsk, Gomel and other regions.
To support No1 Baby Home in Minsk and many other orphanages with medicines and equipment.
To bring children in need of long term medical care to the UK and support them during their stay.
To support Kobrin Children’s Village and the Lapitchy Village Project.

Chernobyl Children's Project
Chernobyl Children’s Project (CCP) UK was launched in Manchester in 1995 and includes about 30 groups in Scotland, England and Wales.
CCP (UK) provides recuperative holidays for about 400 Belarusian children every year.
The Project organises holidays in clean parts of Belarus for children unable to visit the UK.
CCP (UK) delivers medical supplies and other humanitarian aid to Belarus.
The charity supports a children’s hospice, trains staff to prepare children for fostering
(within Belarus) and works with partners to establish better care for children and young people with disabilities.

Remember Chernobyl

26th April 2006 : The 20th Anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster
At the 10th Conference of British and Irish Charities held in April 2005 it was decided to form a working party to consider joint initiatives to promote public awareness of the 20th Anniversary of the disaster.
• Raise awareness of the anniversary and the Chernobyl accident.
• Raise funds for our charities.
• Generate new members and new involvement.
  The website will contain details of the charities involved and of the commemorative events planned to take place in 2006.

Chernobyl Info , International Web Site
The international website Chernobyl Info is an information and communication platform. It is addressed to all those who are dedicated to the alleviation of suffering and to reconstruction efforts in the regions still affected by the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster. In pursuit of its objectives the website takes the following approach:
The website provides impartial information on the impacts of the Chernobyl disaster and on the current situation in the affected areas. It is under the supervision of the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation (SDC)
The website wishes to provide a sound basis for the evaluation of measures aimed at dealing with the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. The most important target audience worldwide comprises decision-makers, at all levels, who are concerned with the consequences of Chernobyl. The provision of information for decision-makers should help to promote the funding of targeted and useful measures.
The website facilitates the sharing of experiences and communication between authorities, communities, NGO’s, twin towns, international organisations and local, national, multi and bilateral support projects for the regions affected by the Chernobyl disaster.

www.core-chernobyl.org/eng
Co-operation for Rehabilitation of living conditions in Chernobyl affected areas in Belarus.
The objective of the CORE programme is to improve the living conditions of the inhabitants of selected districts by reaching out to the people themselves, helping them to contribute to formulating specific individual and common project proposals.

Belarusian School Web Site – Dobrush Gymnasium
This school is in a contaminated area and the website contains contributions from the students about how their lives and that of their community have been affected by the Chernobyl explosion and the resulting contamination.

Belarusian School Web Site – Igovka School

This school is in a contaminated area and the website contains contributions from the students about how their lives and that of their community have been affected by the Chernobyl explosion and the resulting contamination.

www.kiddofspeed.com
A fascinating journey through the Chernobyl ‘dead zone’.
“My name is Elena. I run this website and I don’t have anything to sell. What I do have is my motorbike and the absolute freedom to ride it wherever curiosity and the speed demon take me. I travel a lot and one of my favourite destinations leads north from Kiev, towards the so called Chernobyl ‘dead zone’, which is 130kms from my home. Why my favourite? Because one can take long rides there on empty roads.”

www.who.int/en
The World Health Organisation is the United Nations specialised agency for health and was established in 1948.
The site contains information on health issues related to the Chernobyl disaster. WHO’s objective is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO’s Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Humus Project

A major Italian Chernobyl and Environmental charity involved in research
projects to improve agriculture in contaminated areas
The Humus Projects aims are:
  • To provide and share research and ideas that will help to reduce the effects of contamination of agriculture and to assist the communities in coping with the problems caused by contamination.
  • To provide models of intervention that take account of the social, political, economical and cultural realities of the contaminated regions.

Other Useful Links

www.scotlandrussiaforum.org
The Scotland-Russia Forum was founded in February 2003, as a successor to the
Scottish branch of the Britain-Russia Centre (previously GB-USSR Association).

The Forum’s aim is to promote a clear understanding in Scotland and in Russia, together with the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, of each other's way of life, cultural and commercial activities, and voluntary services, and to create contacts of all kinds between the peoples of Scotland and Russia and the CIS. Activities include: talks in the fields of the arts, politics, commerce etc; social events; business talks and annual conference; films; quarterly newsletter and regular email notification of Russia-related events all over Scotland.

www.cossachok.com
Café Cossachok was established in Glasgow in February 1998 and is Scotland’s first and only authentic Russian restaurant.

A combination of Russian, Armenian, Georgian and Ukrainian cooking provides a real taste of Russia. Live folk and jazz music and an art gallery add to the atmosphere.

www.president.gov.by

The Official Website of the President of the Republic of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko.
“Being the President, I sometimes have to take unpopular decisions. I know that I will not be liked because of that. But my objective is to urge everybody to love the country where we live and respect the authorities which have never abandoned the people in grief. One cannot but agree that whatever happened there was immediate response from the authorities. To protect people is my main job. It is to serve this purpose that I’ve been hired by the nation.” ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO
Includes the President’s speeches, plus news and information about the Republic of Belarus