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Summer break for Chernobyl kids
The summer holiday means more than a break from school for youngsters
visiting Swindon from Belarus because, while enjoying a ten week stay,
they are also taking a break from the harmful effects of radiation caused
by the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
Four children who
have already been to
Swindon with Cher- ^" ?°
nobyl Children's Life-
li ne, have been invited
back fora longer stay. —.
The host families have
paid for their return trip
themselves, as CCLL r
can only pay for one
visit per child. c
Among those enjoy-
ing an extended break, Dental checkup with Brendan Ball, the fourchildren
is Tanya Ramaska, 91 from Ozarichi in Belarus in Swindon for ten weeks.
who first visited the In the chair is the teenage daughter of the regional
McGready family in director of education Alaina Kletchkovskaya, pic-
Peatmoor last sum- tured in the June Link
mer and was featured
in February's Link. Coral and Tim English is improving and they all
McGready committed themselves look so well."
to providing holiday care and Tanya CCLL Swindon welcomes 26 first
spent Christmas with them. ti me children on 16 July who will
At home she hastofend for herself enjoy an action packed programme
much of the time, as her parents are during a four week stay.
alcoholics. But through CCLL she For information about sponsor-
receives a healthy lunch each day. ing or hosting a child, call Gin on
"There's a huge difference in the 728251.
children who return for the second Brendon Ball and his wife Natasha
and third time," said Swindon are motorcycling around the world.
CCLL chairwoman Gin McGiffin. Read about their trip at
"They settle in really quickly, their www.swindonlink.com

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