Hoosier/Chernobyl Mission to Chernihev, Ukraine

January 13 - 20, 2003

A group of seven LifeNets volunteers visited the "Revival" Center of Rehabilitation of Disabled Children in Chernihev, Ukraine, 40 miles east of Chernobyl.  They want to make a difference in the lives of Ukrainian children, many the children of the original children of Chernobyl victimized by the effects of the Chernobyl disaster of April 26, 1986.

The Center is run by a team of caring doctors who lived through and treated children during the 1986 catastrophe and who have devoted their lives to rehabilitating children with various disorders and helping them adapt fully, health-wise and vocationally to society. Their work is extraordinary. LifeNets has been helping these doctors since before the Center opened in June 1996 and has provided substantial aid and support to make it a point of hope for hundreds and hundreds of children in one of the poorest areas of Europe.

Among those going were two teenagers Katie Shabi and Jonathan McClure who were among some of the only teens to ever visit the notorious, now closed, Chernobyl nuclear plant where no one is allowed to come within 25 miles without special permission that is not easy to obtain.

Also along were Debbie Shabi, Katie Durham, Tom Peine, Malcolm McClure and Victor Kubik.

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