The Children Beyond Chernobyl, Part 5/7

RTE's 2008 powerful and beautifully filmed documentary "Children Beyond Chernobyl" picks up where the Academy Award winning "Chernobyl Heart" left off. The film examines the work of Chernobyl Children's Project International (CCPI) and uses moving, intimate stories to describe how the charity and its volunteers are making a difference in Chernobyl affected regions of Belarus.

This fifth of 7 parts shows a CCPI project -- the first of its kind of Belarus -- that will provide independent living in a home of their own for 10 physical and mentally disabled young adults. (You can learn more about this project at http://chernobyl.typepad.com, or see film on the ChernobylChildren channel on YouTube.)

Later, the film documents CCPI's Homes of Hope program, which takes children out of orphanages and places them in loving homes of their own. Meet the Zhila family of Lepin, and hear one of their girls -- Olda -- tell the moving and almost difficult to watch story of the sad road that brought her to her new family and hopeful future.

More information:
http://chernobyl.typepad.com
http://www.youtube.com/ChernobylChildren
http://www.twitter.com/Chernobyl

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• chernobyl
• CCPI
• sasha levkin
• vesnova
• homes of hope
• foster
• soltanovka
• adi roche
• orphanage

[MsAnchovie]

I really love these volunteers

[Elodee123]

She is still a human, It is wrong of her, VERY wrong. But truly we don't know her mother's life, Maybe she grew up around that, and sadly had issues. Maybe she was beaten, perhaps forced as a child to 'give in to men' etc, No one knows. It is wrong to make assumptions that she's not a human.

[BudgieFace11]

Wow!What a welcome home that is!Cool!

[Gurlluvheartluv]

They get a new home. An actual home that is theirs, And i cried so much because they deserve this. All the children of Chernobyl deserve the best. But to see these two get a good home out of the Mental house is amazing.

[theaussiedol2008]

@7nevski7 have a cry you do something about it

[theaussiedol2008]

@StuntsNtactics amen brother

[StuntsNtactics]

the girls stories almost made a man cry right here//

[Elodee123]

I didn't say she was beaten, All i'm saying is we don't know how her life was. Obviously I don't condone her treating her children like that. Humans are cruel, I don't expect otherwise.

[7nevski7]

@Elodee123 cos she was beaten? it was not the reason that she can treat her childs like that, by the way if she is a human she will act like human.

[Elodee123]

Belarus