On Jul 26, 1:36*pm, hk wrote:
John H. wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:49:43 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

John H. wrote in
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These first two sites give some information about our local program.
Typing
'Children of Chernobyl Program' into Google will provide all kinds of
info.
(Read the first update in the above site to get a feel for the problems
the
program is facing.)

http://www.historicchristchurch.org/.../Children.aspx

A friend of mine and his wife who have a boat in Scituate are involved in
this program. *This summer, they sponsored two pre-teen girls from Russia
who are undergoing radiation sickness treatment at the Children's Hospital
in Boston. *They have two pre-teen daughters of their own and the four girls
got along famously, even though the girls from Russia spoke virtually no
English and my friend's kids spoke no Russian. * It was fun watching them
communicate none the less, and they started picking up a few words and
phrases in each other's language.

Nice program. *Hard to believe that the Russian government allowed people to
continue to live in a radiation contaminated area.

Eisboch

The Belarussian government promised to repay the farmers and villagers who
moved from the area close to Chernoby. Many of them moved to other parts of
Belarus, but then found that the government would give them no money. So,
they moved back and began farming the same lands again.

This year the rift between the two governments caused our local program to
have a rough time getting the kids here. I wonder if the program up there
had the same kinds of problems.

This update gives a good idea of the problems the program faces:

http://www.ccalex.org/OutreachAndMis...rusMay0208.pdf

If you'd like to help out a little, offer to take the two girls shopping
for a winter coat. When we picked up our boys, everything they brought fit
into a small back pack. They'll go home with 77lbs of clothes and medicines
and healthy teeth. Our dentist is kind enough to fill cavities, pull teeth,
and even did a root canal for one of our boys.

These kids need to be adopted, not taken for a vacation.- Hide quoted text -

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You idiot! In your knee jerk reaction, you failed miserably to get
your facts before posting. And you consider you try to tell everyone
you're an ex-newsman? You must have been awful at it.