Chernobyl campaigner Adi Roche scoops ‘Nobel prize for children’

TIRELESS Chernobyl campaigner Adi Roche has scooped what has been described as the “Nobel Prize for Children” for her continued efforts to improve the lives of children living in the shadow of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters.

Ms Roche, chief executive of Chernobyl Children Project International (CCPI), will be presented the Health award at the World of Children Awards Ceremony in New York tomorrow.

Ms Roche started working in Chernobyl in 1986 in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster and formally founded the CCPI in 1991.