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new life at Cloud Nine | Medical
care for Lova | Children’s hospice visit |
Educational visits programme set to expand
Holiday plans for summer 2002 | Aid
deliveries | Holiday at Neman Sanatorium | Funding
our work | British 10K Open Road Race
In the early part of the Summer we will bring groups of young children for holidays with their mothers. Teesdale will host children in remission from cancer; those coming to Glossop will be children with heart problems; and children with disabilities will go to Gloucester and to Cardiff where they have the support of both the Caerphilly Centre and the Audiology Department of the University Hospital of Wales. The Centre will give therapy and support to children with physical disabilties and the hospital will assess children with hearing problems and provide them with good quality hearing aids. Staff at the hospital are so enthusiastic about bringing deaf and hearing impaired children to Britain for holidays and assessment.that they organised a sponsored walk last Autumn and raised £3,000. Teifi Valley will also host a group of deaf children.
Amongst the children
who come over this Summer there will be many in remission from cancer,
including teenagers who will spend their holiday in Endon, Aberystwyth
and Carmarthen. Blantyre will organise a gentle programme for a group
of children with Aplastic Anaemia who have never before been allowed to
go abroad. These children have regular blood transfusions and need a drug
called Desferal to clear the iron overload from their systems. It is not
available in Belarus, so we purchase supplies for them in Britain.
Other groups around the country will host youngsters with heart problems,
others who have recently finished hospital treatment, a group of diabetic
children and many who come from villages in contaminated parts of Belarus.
Our Child Care Officer Geoff Wright will be responsible for checking out
all potential host families with the new Criminal Records Bureau.
