CHERNOBYL CHILDREN'S PROJECT (UK)

Loading completed

On April 10th – Sunday and a bright morning in Yorkshire. The aid team of local and not so local mustered at the warehouse to load the 45 ft sheet sided trailer for the single vehicle convoy to Belarus leaving on May 3rd. The target for the aid is firstly the Sanatorium holiday in July August for over 100 severely disabled children and young adults who are unable to make the journey to the UK for holiday. This is a tremendous event in their lives and something they look forward to each year. The aid we will load covers most of the needs of the participants and their carers many of whom are to be young volunteers from UK who give up their free time and raise their own air fares to travel to BY and look after the young people at the Sanatorium in a ‘clean’ area of Belarus.

Several other institutions and organisations that care for the needs of the disabled, sick and poor people will receive the balance of the aid that contains  pampers, toiletries, washing powders, toys and sports goods, new clothes, bedding  and footwear as well as many of the items used in a household or school.

Ian Lacey will drive the vehicle and is to be accompanied by Frank Robins from Catterick Garrison who with wife Veronica is a regular member of the aid team on loading days. This will be Frank’s first visit to Belarus and he is looking forward to the event. Ian has made  many previous visits so will be able to keep Frank informed.

Since the March convoy returned aid has been collected from points across the UK with major pickups from Procter and Gamble in Lancashire, Ikea in Peterborough and from several of the volunteers who have specialised in supplying items for the Sanatorium holiday.

The loading went well and over three quarters of the vehicle was filled by 3pm so on April 17th the local team completed the task and it is now down to the admin of visa application and manifest preparation. Our team in Gomel are waiting for the manifest to translate in Russian and forward same to the main receiver in Rogachev.  More later….

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