Chernobyl Children Enjoy the Mid-Wales Environment
A group from Hoiniki in Southern Belarus, paid a visit to the Centre for Alternative Technology as part of their recuperative holiday in Mid-Wales
Contact: Amanda Roll Pickering (Email: media@cat.org.uk)	Date: 27/07/2004
This week CAT was pleased to play host to 13 children from Southern Belarus. The children come from a town, Hoiniki, only 40km from the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor, site of the 1987 disaster. They are exposed, daily to background radiation..in the water; the food and in the air. A four week break in the clean environment of Mid Wales will reduce the level of radiation in their bodies, in turn helping them to resist diseases, such as leukaemias; cancers and heart defects. The holiday was organised by residents of Caersws, in northern Powys. During their four weeks in Wales the children are staying with local volunteer host families and enjoying days out to the regions' surrounding attractions.
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