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BELARUS - NORGE - LCIF

PROJECT of The REHABILITATIONAL CENTER for FAMILY with SICK CHILD

HISTORY

In 1986 was happend the biggest technical catastrophe on the Chernobyl Atomic Station. This station stand near border of Belarus (30 km) and 70% of radionuklides with the wind migrate to Belarus. Practically all south part of our republic is polluted by radiation.

The most suffered after Chernobyl group of belarusians are children.

The thyeroid cancer was not registered in Belarus before Chernobyl, but now we have more than 450 children with this diagnose. All oncological deasises have this tendention too.

More than 4000 children are ill by cancer, 25000 - post-chernobyl ilneses, 32000 are handycapped, 800 000 have a big problems with health.

Children's Cancer Hospital

Sick girl

Clown-"therapist" Nusha

Lions help

The family with this child is in the crisis situation. They need medicines, money and psychological support. The family need knowleage - what to do ?

Now they can not take this knowleage ang practical skills.

Therefore the Lions from Belarus and Norway began a special Lions project in Belarus in 2000 !

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Brief description of the Project:

The Project of building of the republican rehabilitational Center for families having the child with serious disease caused by consequences of catastrophe on an atomic power plant in Chernobyl.

The participants of the Project:

1. The Urban Center of the social help to family and children of Minsk-city.
2. Department of a social defense of the Minsk urban executive committee.
3. Children's Cancer Hospital, departments of children's hospitals in Minsk.
4. Lions International (LCIF), Coordinating Lion for Belarus Mr. Einar Lyngar.
5. Belarusian Lions Clubs.
6. Norwegian Lions Clubs.
7. Italian Lions Clubs.
8. Office of the UNICEF in Belarus Republic.

Introduction.
The overcoming of consequences of a crash on the Chernobyl atomic power plant remains to one of the main goals of the people of Byelorussia and international charitable organizations.
The radioactive danger first of all damages a health of children. The influence of radioactive elements on originating of some forms of a cancer in childhood is officially installed, and height-dynamic of its number is observed in our republic.
The doctors do very much for saving a life of falling ill children. But influence on result of treatment render not only medicine, but also social and psychological conditions in family of the sick child.
This major problem remains without attention of the experts now.
It's time to think how to help to family with the hardly sick child to save psychological health of the parents and other children in a family.
The serious illnesses caused by radiation often give a physical inability of the child, paralysis, violations of work of a liver, heart, brain and other violations of health.
It is especially important to support family in the term of a beginning of treatment and during rests in long-lived treatment, which some years can last. During short rests (1-2 weeks) the family leaves home, there, where the illness began, in the same social and psychological conditions. About 40 % of the fathers abandoned family when a child was ill.
Possibility to give the specialized psychological and social help and to organize the rehabilitational program at the rehabilitation Center is a necessary condition of a further surviving of the child and is a preventive measures of disintegration of a family.
The Byelorussian families with the seriously sick child do not have possibility to receive the necessary long-term social - psychological help in sufficient volume now. The state can not independently solve this actual problem, the public organizations of our republic not have sufficient resources, and therefore project managers ask about the help of the Lions International.

The common description of the Project.

The process of implementation of the Project consists of 3 stages:
1. Designing and building of a house of the Rehabilitational Center;
2. Staff-education program;
3. Support of practical rehabilitational activity within 3 years.

The first and second stages are carried out simultaneously within 1 year from a beginning of implementation of the Design and, after completion of building, pass in the third stage.

The base unit of a building consists of 4 blocks:
1. The hotel block for families, which consist:
1.1. 10 rooms with a toilet and shower booth;
1.2. 2 kitchens;
1.3. A room with a washing machine and dryer;
2. The block of a social - psychological rehabilitation, which consist:
2.1. Two rooms for psychological consultation (one of them is arranged for family therapy);
2.2. Musical therapy-room;
2.3. Workshop of art and labor therapy;
2.4. Trenagers-room with ball-type pool;
2.5. Game room for children of low age with a sandpit;
2.6. Two rooms for group therapy (for the teenagers and adults);
2.7. Warehouse location for stock (bicycles, skates, ski, invalid's seats etc.).
3. The administrative block, which consist:
3.1. Three rooms of staff;
3.2. A room for the on duty doctor and nurse with the procedural block;
3.3. The library with the books, computer and Xerox ;
3.4. A hall-room for general meetings on 80 places (with a cinema and video);
3.5. Buffet for staff;
3.6. Two toilets, one douche;
4. The recreational block, to which other blocks are attached:
4.1. A common hall;
4.2. A winter garden with aquarium, birds and flowers;

Building will be in two floors, with a cellar, garage for an ambulance, with a sight platform on a roof, in ecologically clean region of city.
Common square near of 800 sq.m.

The more-detailed design-project of the Center now is developed.

Manager of the Project A.Turovets.

 

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