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Our mission this year with the help of our local business, families, and individuals, is to raise $2,000 to help those who have nowhere else to turn. Shortly after Thanksgiving we have a ten ton container headed for the Ukraine Revival Rehabilitation Center founded by Vasil Pasechnik who was the chief pediatrician in the Chernobyl area during the nuclear accident. Dr. Vasil Pasechnik visited Indiana this past August and told his story to First Lady Judy O'Bannon in a two hour meeting. Money is badly needed to purchase some last minute items. For more information about the work we've done in Chernobyl go to the LifeNets section here on the WEB at www.lifenets.org/chernobyl.
Two ten ton containers of food, medical supplies and equipment have already been sent to Ukraine with a third about to go. We have been using State Department programs such as Operation Support Freedom and Operation Provide Hope which have paid for shipping. Help also comes from private donations, hospitals and clinics. We purchase medicine for 5-10% of it's actual value. With all this support, we are able to leverage every dollar donated by a factor of about 30 times. Each dollar contributed results in $30 aid actually delivered.
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Breast Cancer Today Support Group, is a member the Indiana Face of Breast Cancer. This is a breast cancer advocacy group which is dependent on our personal resources and committed to educating the community, supporting individuals and their families who have been touched by breast cancer.
We are anticipating support from over 40 area businesses.
Please assist us this year by joining in this effort by being a Financial
Supporter. If you would like to send your
tax-deductible donation at
this time to directly help these worthy causes, please make your check
payable to The Chernobyl Fund and mail to
LifeNets - Lafayette Week of Thanks
P.O. Box 5222
Lafayette, IN 47903
Unless otherwise specified, your donation will be divided equally between the
two groups we are helping. Remember that your contribution is FULLY TAX
DEDUCTIBLE. For more information about the progress of Lafayette's Day of
Thanks, please contact these websites:
http://www.lifenets.org
http://www.pacellihealth.com
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Here is a brief description of the humanitarian work that has been done by Victor Kubik from the United Church of God in Lafayette in conjunction
with Dr. Anthony J. Pacelli of Pacelli Chiropractic & Health Potential
Complex, Lafayette, Indiana.
In the United States Victor Kubik has founded LifeNets
to help needy people here and abroad in
practical ways and to help them become self-sufficient. He has already sent over $450,000 of relief to victims of radiation. In this amount
desperately needed medication to Chernobyl valued at
nearly $250,000 was donated largely by a pharmaceutical company. The cost to us was was only 6% of
this total. The relief that has been shipped has been in the
form of medical equipment, medicine, food, clothing and money.
Victor Kubik is also a board member of the International Chernobyl
Children's Trust in the United Kingdom founded by British surgeon Maurice
Frohn who speaks throughout the United Kingdom about the serious health problems
caused by radiation from the April
26, 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Kubik and Frohn have traveled together to Chernobyl three
times since April 1996 and have seen first-hand the desperate needs, especially for
children affected by the radiation. All
aid has arrived to intended recipients since Victor and Maurice know and work
with doctors in Chernihev (a city of 320,000 about 40 miles east of Chernobyl). Both
Kubik and Frohn are members of the city of Chernihiv's Humanitarian Relief Distribution
Board that determines how the aid is to be parceled out.
Ukraine is bankrupt and can hardly afford to care for the victims of the
disaster and replace the damaged reactor from the accident that took place
nearly 14 years ago. The terror from radiation is not only the
problems of victims in Ukraine. It is our problem as inhabitants of a
planet who must find a way to care for the health of our children and this
Earth.
Stories about this work have appeared in the London Daily Telegraph, The Indianapolis Star, Lafayette-Journal & Courier, and other publications. Victor Kubik has been interviewed on numerous radio talk shows to explain the needs of victims in a country that cannot care for them. Mr. Kubik & Dr. Pacelli have also appeared on television news programs so that there can be greater understanding about these problems and their solutions.
For more information about how you and/or your company can help, please contact Victor Kubik on email at chernobyl@lifenets.org or by phone at 317 216-0802 or Dr. Anthony J. Pacelli via
tel. 765 447-2222
fax 765 447-7051
email drp7@gte.net
240 Professional Court
Lafayette, Indiana 47905