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Iain Kelly with our wonderful Klimovka staff - Olga, Natasha, Tamara and Galina.

On a beautiful sunny day in May all the senior figures in the Gomel Regional Executive assembled outside Family Home 2000 at Klimovka, along with many of those who helped us last year to turn our dream into reality and create this home.

When Ambassador Iain Kelly arrived he was greeted with the traditional gift of bread and salt and a National Folk Song and then all assembled inside for the Opening Ceremony. There were speeches from Igor Trizno and Linda Walker for Chernobyl Children’s Project; the Directors of Education and Social Protection the Deputy Leader of the Region, Connie Nall from KeyMed; and finally from the Ambassador, in excellent Russian.

But the star of the show was Sasha, who was the original inspiration for creating this home. He took centre stage and, having delivered his own speech, chipped in to everyone else's to the delight of all present, including the journalists and TV cameramen.
A few weeks after the Opening, the team at Klimovka were joined by the fourth member of the household, Svieta. She has not grown up at Zhuravichi, but at a boarding school where she has had the chance to receive a good education.

We hope that she will help to encourage Sasha, Greesha and Liena in their studies. They are already great friends.

During the Summer the four young people from Family Home 2000 took part in the holiday at Neman and they are pictured, right, with Galina. The staff at Klimovka have worked with Igor, Nicolai and Liena from our partner organisation in Gomel to transform the lives of these young people.