Brave teen wants the world to remember Chernobyl

RAISA Carolan from Belarus yesterday recalled the “mostly bad” times she experienced in the orphanage she left four years ago to live with her adopted parents in Ireland.

The courageous 14-year-old, abandoned by her parents when she was born, is anxious children like her — still suffering from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 21 years after the horrific event — will not be forgotten.

Yesterday, Raisa was one of 21 pupils from St Mary’s National School in Trim, Co Meath, who travelled to Dublin to help the Chernobyl Children’s Project International remind people that at 1.23am on April 26, 1986, the worst environmental disaster known to mankind took place in Chernobyl.