September 13, 1998
In late August a shipment of medicine weighing a half a ton was sent from Holland to the city of Chernihev in Ukraine. Chernihev is one of the hot spots of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster area being only 40 miles east of Chernobyl.
We were able to purchase this medicine at about 1/16 of it's value and provide a rehabilitation center, hospital and polyclinics with desperately needed medication. The vast part of the financing was provided by the International Chernobyl Children's Trust in the United Kingdom which is chaired by Maurice Frohn and shipping arrangements were made by The Chernobyl Fund chaired by Victor Kubik which is part of the Family Umbrella Network.
Maurice Frohn and Victor Kubik have travelled to the Chernihev area on three occasions in 1996-7 and personally know the doctors and hospitals involved. We are happy to say that all aid shipped arrived safely and will be used in the way it was intended.
To learn more about our work in the Chernobyl area, please visit us at http://www.lifenets.org/chernobyl.
We received this FAX on September 12th from Dr. Pasechnik, head of the "Revival" Medical-Social Rehabilitation Centre for Handicapped Children:
September 11, 1998
Dr. Vasily PasechnikDear Victor Kubik and Dr. Maurice Frohn!
With great pleasure I inform you that we received your very valuable gift -- 38 boxes of medicines. This is a great help for our ill children--victims of Chernobyl's disaster.
Medicines will be handed over to the children's polyclinics, children's hospital, maternity hospital, other hospitals and part of it will be left at the Centre for children, who are treated here.
Thank you very much, to all the kind people in the United States and Great Britain for your generosity, for your kind-hearted treatment of our children.
With respect and love,
Director of the Centre
Candidate of Medical Science
Merited Doctor of UkraineVasiliy Pasechnik
