Please complete the form below, detach and return it to us. G Choose Your Gifts Amount Quantity en ia € & Medical Care 30 A d i Hospice & Community Care €50 ✓Medical Care – Almost €100 million delivered in humanitarian and medical aid Deinstitutionalisation - Independent Living €70 Cardiac Surgery €150 ✓Building & Construction Programmes – Refurbishment of Orphanages & Institutions; building Day Care Centres each serving General Donation € 60,000 people I enclose a cheque/postal order for the above amount. Rest & Recuperation – 25,000 children flown to Ireland for respite holidays (please make cheques payable to Chernobyl Children International) ✓ For all NON US Donations postal address as follows, ✓Hospice & Community Care – Providing professional care previously unavailable IRELAND: Chernobyl Children International, 1A The Stables, for 1,000 disabled and terminally-ill children and their families; Establishing new Alfred Street, Cork, Ireland. Baby Hospice programme For US Donations postal address as follows, ✓‘Homes of Hope’ – Pioneering ground-breaking foster parent programme for Chernobyl Children International (CCI) For more information on the work of the USA: Chernobyl Children International, Northpoint Financial Centre, children committed to orphanages. 30 “Homes of Hope” built across ; was established by Adi Roche in the charity, please email: 490 Main Street, Northport, NY 11768, USA. 300 children transferred from orphanages and state institutions aftermath of the in [email protected] 1986. Since then, the organisation has or call (021) 455 8774 Please debit my: Visa Debit/Credit Mastercard American Express Independent Living Programme – CCI has built Belarus’s first Independent living delivered almost €100 million worth ✓ of medical and humanitarian aid to Postal address: Card No. homes, allowing young adults with special needs to integrate into their local communities the region and brought 25,000 Chernobyl Children International, Expiry Date: CVV: children to Ireland for life-enhancing 1A The Stables, Alfred Street, rest and recuperation. It costs €1 million Cork, Ireland. Signature of Cardholder: Child Cardiac Surgeries – Funding 6 flying doctor missions to annually. ✓ a year to fund our programmes. None In order to process your donation,please 6,500 life-saving operations delivered supply the following information: Today’s Date: of this work would have been possible www.chernobyl-international.com Name: without the tremendous support of ChernobylChildrenInternational ✓Nursing Care Programme – expert nursing and therapeutic care for 170 donors and volunteers worldwide. Address: institutionalised children; training / upskilling of 24 nursing staff @Chernobyl This accident continues to affect Tel/Mobile Number: ✓Life-saving operations - 20,000 surgeries undertaken millions of people in the surrounding Email: regions. Since 1986 we have affected Please keep me up to date with CCI’s work by mail & email ✓Dental Programme - Reaching over 170 institutionalised children some truly wonderful changes in the I do not wish to receive updates from CCI lives of Chernobyl’s children, but the need is still great. If a particular programme is oversubscribed CCI will allocate your donation to where it is needed most. You can also make donations online by logging onto www.chernobyl-international.com or by calling 021 455 8774 FOR NON US DONATIONS VIA CCI IRISH BANK Chernobyl was the world’s deadliest The appeal galvanised a young volunteer, nuclear disaster. The April 26 1986 Adi Roche, into action and led to the If you would like to send your donation via our bank as a lodgement or bank transfer, the There are still almost 300 orphanages and children’s details of Permanent TSB are as follows: explosion released 200 times more establishment of an organisation institutions in the region where thousands of radiation than Hiroshima & Nagasaki. that would focus global attention on abandoned children live lonely and forgotten lives. Permanent TSB, Sort Code: 99-07-01 Chernobyl’s lethal fallout. Initially The services CCI provides have reached Many eventually end up in adult mental asylums. Patrick’s Street, Account Name: Chernobyl Children’s Project Ltd. The accident - which was immediately Chernobyl Children International out to almost 1 million children and But CCI, in keeping with Adi Roche’s initial pledge Cork. Account number: 36410021 surrounded by denial and cover up - (CCI) concentrated on airlifting their families. Our volunteers have transformed to devote her life to the children of Chernobyl , affected the lives of 7 million people in children from Belarus to Ireland. Later the once frightening Children’s Mental Asylum at is working to change that forever. Following high Ukraine, Belarus & Western Russia. volunteers became involved in mounting Vesnova, 175 KM from Chernobyl, into a world class level talks with the Ministry of Social Protection STANDING ORDER: humanitarian convoys to Belarus. They child care centre from which we direct many of our new laws were introduced to allow the children to S Please complete this form in BLOCK CAPITALS and return it to us at: Radiation levels were so high that 3,000 soon encountered hidden orphanages medical care programmes. Every month Irish and be moved into Independent Living Units when they as ha Chernobyl Children International, 1A The Stables, Alfred Street, Cork. towns and villages, were demolished and and mental asylums across the Chernobyl US medical and nursing teams travel to Vesnova reach the age of 18. Two of these units - the first ever in Bl onde buried beneath millions of tons of earth. region where children lived in appalling to oversee the ground breaking rehabilitation work Belarus - have been funded and built by CCI at Vesnova. € Your Bank Name & Address: In the five years following the explosion and frightening conditions. pioneered there and to help train local staff. A Here boys and girls are learning to live independently with the 70 the Soviet Union tried to conceal and donation of just €30 will underwrite care for a child help of life skill workshop training. Two Vesnova residents Sasha Amount: € Monthly Quarterly Annually r minimise Chernobyl’s lethal legacy of o like 12 year old Igor in Vesnova. Igor suffers Leuvkin and Sasha Holdyau have gained international celebrity from their many TV g death, disease, deformity and social I from multiple birth defects and the care CCI appearances and from the articles written about them. Sasha “Blonde” is writing his IBAN: upheaval. provides has changed his life forever. authobiography; Sasha “Black” dreams of becoming an artist as CCI pioneers for the rights of young adults battling great disabilities. BIC: But in January 1991 a group of Belarusian € 30 Start Date: Today’s Date: doctors revealed to the world – in a desperate three line fax – how frightening the situation in the Chernobyl region Name of Account Holder(s): Every year, 6,000 children in Ukraine are born with the genetic heart defect really was. Please pay each month until you receive further notice from me/us in writing. known as “.” If untreated 1 in 3 will die by the age This instruction cancels any previous order in favour of the beneficiary named below. Adi Roche was numbed by the horror of of 5. Responding to this crisis CCI has initiated a “Flying what she saw in the orphanages. The long shadow of Chernobyl has fallen Doctors Programme” which sees teams of internationally Permanent TSB, Patrick’s Street, Cork. To credit: Chernobyl Children International, “Death and the smell of death, disease across the lives of tens of thousands of renowned cardiac surgeons fly in to carry out 1A The Stables, Alfred Street, Cork. Sort Code: 99-07-01 Account Name: Chernobyl and decay was everywhere. It was utterly children in affected areas. Scientists believe life-saving “open heart” operations on the most Children’s Project Ltd. Account number: 36410021 A critically ill children. have raised r shocking that little children could be abnormally high levels of mental and t €3 million to fund 6,500 of these operations. e abandoned in such conditions; tied to beds, physical illnesses are linked to radioactivity m Signed: Today’s Date: unloved, uncared for, brutalised”. levels. CCI operates a huge Community Surgical teams fly in six times a year and The fax to the offices in Cork of a Her immediate reaction was to pledge to Care and Hospice programme to help young working round the clock with local hospital Email: small group, Irish devote the rest of her life to the welfare victims of Chernobyl and to allow them to L staff, carry out 35 to 40 operations over a 14 iza Telephone: If you are a PAYE worker please tick this box CND, begged “someone, anyone” to of the abandoned and abused children of be cared for in their own homes. Children day period. One of the children who owes his airlift children from Chernobyl’s highly life to the programme is 10 month old Artem. Chernobyl. like 4 year old Liza who is hydrocephalic vulnerable contaminated environment to Ireland. The € His mother has said that CCI need round the clock care. The burden on children 50 doctors believed the levels of radioactivity donors are guardian angels who For almost 30 years CCI has led the parents, like Liza’s, of keeping their children in the world. A € Please note that if you are a PAYE taxpayer, a donation of €21 or more a in their bodies would be greatly reduced have saved her son’s life. 150 world’s response to the plight of the out of grim institutions is enormous. But we donation of €50 to fund therapeutic services month could be worth an extra 69.5% to CCI at no extra cost to you. through rest and recuperation in Ireland’s children. It has raised almost €100 million make that possible despite the severity of would transform their lives clean air. Many had genetic defects and to fund its programmes in Belarus and their disabilities. These are some of the most beyond recognition. diseases scientists believe were caused by Ukraine. Today these programmes reach You can also make donations online by logging onto Chernobyl’s deadly radiation. almost half a million people changing lives forever. www.chernobyl-international.com or by calling 021 455 8774 PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU ARE DONATING ONLINE WITHIN THE US, YOU WILL BE GEOLOCATED AUTOMATICALLY TO OUR US ONLINE DONATION AREA