The prospect of watching a child struggle with life-threatening disease is every parent's nightmare and indeed, would be of concern to any compassionate person. Imagine then, the effect of having no option but to continue to feed contaminated food to children already in fragile health.

This is the reality for parents in Belarus still trying to deal with the legacy of the Chernobyl disaster. These are people with great courage and natural humour who are endeavouring to manage these problems as best they can.

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Many of you will have seen heartening reports of children from Belarus visiting the U.K. for respite holidays from which they benefit enormously. However, what about the little ones too tiny or too sick to enjoy the psychological and physical benefits from such opportunities?

This effort, so far, in a very small way, has been to provide specialised supplements to support and improve immune systems and general palliative care for children at the Belarusian Children Hospice in Minsk. Reports back have been extremely positive in listing results seen in the children's health inprovements. We would now very much like to increase the level of assistance given and with your help, we can do just that.

As Dr. Anna Garchakova knows only too well, when the quality of life is raised through improved health levels of a sick child - you also help alleviate the stress and the feeling of helplessness within a whole family, as well as the medical staff doing their best to cope with this large-scale problem.

With the help of a wonderful band of practitioners from a wide range of Complementary Health modalities, giving freely of their time, we have held therapy days to raise funds for the children. The level of amounts raised using this means, although valuable, is limited, and obviously restricted due to many factors. So, any financial help that you can provide, large or small, would be greatly appreciated. Please go to the link above marked "how to help." Whatever you can afford will make a difference.

We will always stay with the Belarusian Children's Hospice in Minsk, but eventually we would like to expand our operations in order to provide nutritional supplements to children world-wide.

If any indiviudals or nutritional supplement companies in the UK or abroad would like to help by donating supplements then by all means, please contact us here at:christine (at) minskhospice.com

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