Chernobyl Children International, or CCI, works to help kids in the region whose lives have been impacted by a disaster that happened years before they were born. Many suffer from physical ...

About 1,000 children apply each year for the Dedham-based program. There are 1 million who live in the Chernobyl region, but there is only financing to take about 100 children, Doyle said.

Children from Gomel, Belarus (a city about 60 miles outside Chernobyl), wave after arriving in Hanover, Germany, on June 1, 2016. Holger Hollemann/Getty Images ...

There are 2,397,863 people registered with Ukraine’s health ministry to receive ongoing Chernobyl-related health treatment. Of these, 453,391 are children.

ZALYSHANY, Ukraine — Viktoria Vetrova knows the risk her four children take in drinking milk from the family’s two cows and eating dried mushrooms and berries from the forest. But the cash-st… ...

Some previous genetic studies of people affected by Chernobyl had claimed to find hints of heritable mutations, notably a 1996 study that found excess changes in children’s “minisatellites ...

As voluntary CEO of Chernobyl Children International, Adi Roche has overseen the delivery of more than €108m of humanitarian aid and services to the Chernobyl-affected regions ...

Chernobyl Children International, or CCI, works to help kids in the region whose lives have been impacted by a disaster that happened years before they were born. Many suffer from physical ...