BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

16/07/2007

180 children from Belarus to spend summer with Lorca families

By: Jose Andugar, thinkSPAINtoday

A total of 180 children from Belarus will spend this summer with families from Lorca. The children are from Chernobyl, the city that suffered a terrible nuclear accident in 1986 that has had terrible health, economic and social consequences.

Organisers recalled the tragedy suffered by the Belarussian people: "Many of you have children of the same age, between six and seven years old. Imagine what the parents must be going through for them to put their kids on a bus that will take them so far away, knowing that they won't see them again for fifty days," said one to the families who will be taking the children in.

Source:

http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/13405