Chernobyl Children

On Friday 27 July 2012, members of Stokesley Rotary Club took a group of 20 underprivileged children from Chernobyl for a well-deserved day out.  Every year the Rotary Clubs in our region host a group of children who continue to live in a town where radiation levels are dangerously high as a result of the nuclear reactor accident there in 1986. While they are here, our local Rotary Clubs, led by regional organisers John and Margaret Cundall, provide them with new clothing and shoes, fund their medical and dental care, and arrange for them to stay with loving host families in healthy conditions for a month.

Janice and Dave Bushby, proprietors of local company Grainge Greengrocers, provided a large box of fruit for the children, whose diet at home is very limited.  A coach trip to York followed, where the children, aged between 7 and 10, went tenpin bowling before moving on to the nearby CreepyCrawlies adventure play park for an exciting day of climbing, swinging, hiding and sliding.  Lunch and refreshments throughout the day were funded by the Rotary Club, and a very tired group of children returned to their host families at around 6pm.