The Chernobyl Children Project USA is the largest organization in the U.S. that provides medical treatment and respite care for children from the Chernobyl-affected areas of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Based in Boston, Chernobyl Children Project USA arranges medical care in the U.S. for children suffering from a wide variety of ailments and places them with volunteer host families during their stay. The project has provided care for more than 1,500 children. Chernobyl Children Project USA has also provided equipment, supplies and training to medical institutions and personnel in the region totaling over $6 million. Boston-area doctors and hospitals have performed surgeries totaling more than $4 million. Each year, more than $450,000 in diagnostic medical services are donated from 15 area hospitals. U.S. doctors also travel to the area to train their counterparts in the use of donated medical equipment, such as ultrasounds for diagnosing thyroid problems.
| January 2010. Yulia Nosenko’s open heart surgery was a complete success.
Many, many thanks to Floating Hospital for Children and to all of her supporters. |
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New friends…![]() Yulia is helped by two Bruins in the Cardiology Clinic at Floating. Thanks to Daniel Paille (left) and Byron Bitz (right). |
Chernobyl Children Project received two letters from the Nosenko family with deepest thanks for our help.A Letter from Klintsy, RussiaApril, 2010 Dear American friends, From the bottom of the hearts of all the doctors, nurses, parents, and their children we would like to thank you, Patty, and all the people who help the Children’s hospital in Klintsy. We are very thankful for your love, support, kindness, mercy, and charity. May the Lord’s blessings lead you to success and happiness! Wishing you a Happy Spring and joyous Easter! We saw Julia today she is doing better and better. Her family and she asked us to say hello to everybody. They are sorry because couldn’t write at once of their computer, it’s out of order. With best wishes, Doctor Stephan and Sasha |
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Offering hope to the young victims of the Chernobyl nuclear accident would not be feasible without the efforts of many people and organizations.
The business and service community of the metro Boston area has come to the assistance of the project and continues to offer support for its future.
We have a lot going on.
The Chernobyl tragedy is the largest peacetime radiation catastrophe that has ever occurred on this planet.
Considered to be the worst manmade nuclear disaster in world history, the human dimensions of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion are vast and heartbreaking. The Chernobyl nuclear accident is a global environmental event which has left thousands of refugees and long-term contamination of the land, water and air.
June, 2010
The following article was recently translated from Russian.
It appeared in the Klintsy City Newspaper
It’s been 24 years since Chernobyl tragedy, but until nowadays we see consequences of it. Living in the contaminated areas not everybody has a possibility to move to clean area and get necessary medical help. At the same time “Chernobyl” diseases [...]