The Sherborne and Yeovil link of Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline (CCLL) is raising money to help youngsters in the nuclear accident-ravaged country, despite not being able to host them this year.

CCLL – a national charity formed in 1992 – brings children from Belarus and Ukraine to the UK for a three to four-week recuperative stay with volunteer hosts. This short time gives a much-needed boost to their compromised immune systems.

Belarus and Ukraine and their peoples are still very much affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident. CCLL, although currently unable to bring children to the UK, is still raising funds to support children and ongoing projects in those countries.

They have recently raised money to help Luba, a four-year-old girl who has cancer of the eye. She and her mother had been taking arduous 140-mile round trips on public transport (with an increased risk of contracting covid-19) to attend treatments. Generous volunteers in Belarus are now driving them to the treatments, and money raised by the link and its supporters has paid the fuel costs.

Luba is susceptible to bronchitis and pneumonia so the link has bought a new boiler for the family to replace their broken wood burner.
It has also bought a month’s supply of highly nutritious foods to boost Luba’s and her four siblings’ immune systems.

The link has started to organise some fundraising events due to take place later this year, details of which can be found on its Facebook page.

If you would like to find out how you can help the children of Belarus and Ukraine, contact them via Facebook or email ccllsherborneandyeovil@gmail.com.

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