How US charities gave kids living near Chernobyl a summer in America

The World

For so many people living near the nuclear plant, the health impacts were immediate and devastating. Others lived in fear of what the long-term radiation exposure could do to them. In the years after the disaster, US-based charities made efforts to help some of the most vulnerable living near Chernobyl. The World’s Andrea Crossan has this story.

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