Chernobyl aid group to renovate orphanage

A WATERFORD-BASED charity which has spent 10 years helping children in a part of Belarus affected by the Chernobyl accident is preparing to send a group of up to 70 professionals to help renovate an orphanage.

Chernobyl Aid Ireland, set up by Liam Grant in 1997, celebrates its 10th anniversary this weekend and will send its second convoy of aid of 2007 to Grosovo Orphanage, 110km south of Minsk.

Heading east by road will be building materials and humanitarian aid for the building, which houses about 150 children, from seven to 17 years of age.