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Chernobyl Children's Project International has funded lifesaving cardiac surgeries for hundreds of kids in Belarus at the National Children's Cardiac Center. Training and professional development of local physicians is an important part of the program ... this means that your donations not only save lives during surgical missions, but contribute to the training of local medics so that lives can be saved year round. As always, our long term objective is to create self-sufficiency, not dependency.

In May 2008, we sent a volunteer surgical team to Kharkiv, Ukraine, where 17 young lives were saved. Through the end of 2008, we will send three more teams to Odessa, Donetsk and Kyiv for surgical and training visits.

When we started our program in Belarus, more than 7000 children were on the waiting list for surgeries . . . now that number is down about 2400. We hope to duplicate this success in Ukraine, where 6000 children are born every year with genetic heart disease.

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children , heart , cardiac , chernobyl , Minsk