Friends of Chernobyl's Children (UK) is a charity founded in 1995 that brings children, who are at risk, from

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to the

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for a month every year. The charity is named after the

Chernobyl disaster The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two nuc ...

of 1986. It is one of the oldest of the 20 Chernobyl-named charities registered with the

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. The founder and director of the charity, Olwyn Keogh, was appointed an

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in 2007 "For services to child victims of the Chernobyl disaster in Belarus".

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Friends of Chernobyl's Children - United KingdomFriends of Chernobyl's Children - Isle of Man
* Children's charities based in the United Kingdom Aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster 1995 establishments in the United Kingdom {{UK-charity-stub

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