Projects

CCCF Projects

After 20 years,our projects have expanded to include other areas of need in Ukraine.

The primary mandate is of medical help to the regions affected by the Chornobyl blast in 1986.

Medical Programs continuing financial, technical and educational support for hospitals in the regions affected by the Chornobyl disaster and the areas of resettlement of the victims. Predominant regions are in the central Ukraine, Kyiv across to the western regions of Lviv and Ternopil.

Affiliated projects include :

•HUHTC financial and educational support in order to send children from orphanages to summer and winter camp.
•DZHERELO financial and educational support for the Dzherelo Rehabilitation Centre in Lviv for children with disabilities.
•SCHOLARSHIP financial support for qualified students from orphanages attending higher educational institutions in Ukraine.
•ATI financial and educational support for Ukrainian organizations in dealing with human trafficking especially educating the youth in orphanages.

Though 24 years have passed since the Chornobyl tragedy, the people of Ukraine feel the consequences of the catastrophe to this day. Chornobyl has directly affected the lives of over 3 million people, 1/3 of them children.

‣40,000 individuals who were involved in the clean-up of the reactor, most of them men in their 30's and 40's, have since died.
‣the incidence of leukemia and other blood disorders has increased, especially in children.
‣cardiac problems, chronic skin conditions and respiratory illness have increased.
‣thyroid cancer is occurring in rates that are 80 times higher than normal.
‣50% of men between the ages of 13 and 29 have problems with fertility - this is the highest infertility rate in the world.
‣chromosomal damage is 7 times higher in children born to men who were involved in liquidating the reactor, including Down's syndrome, cleft palate and other deformities.
‣there is a high rate of miscarriages and birth defects have nearly doubled.
‣infant mortality is twice that of the European average.
‣Many families continue to live in lands contaminated by low levels of radiation and radioactivity is gradually seeping into the water table. So the consequences of Chornobyl are not yet over. Many cancers develop years after exposure to radiation, so the full medical impact of Chornobyl is still to be felt. Psychological consequences and the need for psychosocial rehabilitation are just starting to be recognized and addressed, including the high incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder, alcoholism and drug abuse in this population.