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• We have just returned from our 2008 convoy, which was as usual a challenge, but a success in the end. We are currently working on the information we gathered whilst in Belarus to develop our plans for the next 12 months and a new wish list based on what we heard and saw. Watch this space.....

• We are organising various charity events to try and raise the money for this convoy. To see how you can help, visits our Events Page

• This year we are looking for new destinations to add to next years convoys, as well as continuing to support our existing locations.

• Our new website has been launched to try and help our supporters to access information about the charity and our events (October 2007)

• We are working towards bringing children from the Uzda Music School to the UK, summer 2008.

• We are looking into the possibility of taking volunteers out to Belarus (when we go to collect the children), perhaps students, who would carry out specific community based projects.

• We are working on projects to get companies involved in the charity's work through corporate development programmes. We are hoping this will bring much needed funds and 'new blood' to the charity.

• We are working with other Chernobyl charities to try and improve the new laws that have been introduced governing the visas required by Belarusian children coming to visit the UK. These laws are prohibitive as they stand and will make charities such as ours incapable of organising much needed recuperative trips for these children.

• We are talking with UNESCO after they contacted us regarding international school links and twinning. They have realised that the links developed by charities such as our own that are based on friendship, are much more beneficial and long lived than those that have been introduced by government schemes in the past.