Medical ProgrammeThe Burren Chernobyl Project Medical Programme provides additional nurs-ing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and medical interventions to our paediatric orphanages across Belarus. Burren Chernobyl Project works closely with our Belarusian counterparts and pays development workers to work in the understaffed orphanages who in turn are supported by regular teams of Irish health care volunteers who travel to oversee the programme and provide support. Development worker Maria Kolesnik supports the programme based in Cherven children's orphanage which is home to three hundred children with intellectual and physical disabili-ties. BCP are also running a community based aid programme which works closely with local families and children with disabilities in the Cherven region. The programme not only offers short term interventions but provides long term support and hope for both the orphanages and the communities in which it works. |
