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The Plight of Chernobyl s Contaminated Children (2002)

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Chernobyl s Children (2002) - Almost a quarter of Belarus is still contaminated from the explosion at Chernobyl. We take a look at what is being done to help the region s most vulnerable residents - its children. Subscribe to Journeyman here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=journeymanpictures A little girl whimpers as a blanket brushes her raw skin. "I m desperate to help her, but I m totally powerless," wails her mother. Veronika was not even born when the nuclear reactor exploded at Chernobyl. She has been dying all her life. Although 135,000 residents were displaced from areas near the plant, thousands still live in the less contaminated regions. Things are slowly improving. New hospices and cancer wards, funded by foreign aid, help alleviate the children s suffering and life expectancy in the region is slowly increasing. Thanks to these schemes, there is now a glimmer of hope for Chernobyl s children. For more information, visit https://www.journeyman.tv/film/1480 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures Visit our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/JourneymanPictures/ Say hi on tumblr: https://journeymanpictures.tumblr.com/ ORF Fernsehprogramm-Service GmbH & Co KG – Ref. 1480

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