Chernobyl Children's Lifeline - Mid Surrey Link

Despite visiting many families, we met far fewer cows than we had in previous trips! They are still very much part of village life - where else would you lose your chauffeur around a village because he had to go and catch his cow, who had escaped looking for a bull?! He came back eventually reporting that he had caught the cow, and a

Whilst seeing the many small ways life in Belarus is changing, we were constantly aware that there is still poverty and difficulty, but that even more important than that is the knowledge that Chernobyl Children Lifeline's reason for being is not relief of poverty, or holidays for poor children. It exists because of the difference we can make to the lives of children growing up with the long term health effects of the Chernobyl disaster, and those children are affected as much by the contamination whether they have satellite TV and a flushing toilet, or a cow in the back garden and an earth closet.

And a final similarity? Despite using chopped wood and burning it down in order to have that last night barbeque instead of using pre packaged charcoal, it's not only the British who stand out in the rain eating kebabs!