A big thank you to my essay, for making this week incredibly stressful so far.
Today i heard from Dennis from Chernobyl Children Lifeline, he has been in contact with the people who will be responsible for me while im in Ukraine,
here is the basic time plan, a more complex plan cant really be established till im there and see how long it takes me to get the photos im after:
Today i heard from Dennis from Chernobyl Children Lifeline, he has been in contact with the people who will be responsible for me while im in Ukraine,
here is the basic time plan, a more complex plan cant really be established till im there and see how long it takes me to get the photos im after:
24days in total.
Sunday 15th March - 8.00 flight from London Heathrow.
15th-25th in Kiev - several visits to Pripyat and setlers within the 'Exclusion zone'
Meeting with Scientist
Visits to Cancer Hospital
Staying in emergency medical centre
25th - 30th Ivankov - Visits to; school, Hospital and Orphanage.
Trip to exclusion zone and Pripyat.
Meeting with American photographer
and heads of charity
trips to local villages and a local church
staying with a host family.
30th - 4th Korosten - im not fully aware of my agenda here yet.
i will be attending the opening of a new Chernobyl
care centre.
4th-7th Brodyanka - again i am not fully aware of details from Brodyanka.
it is a more rural town, i will be visiting a mental
asylum for children. and talking
to victims of the Chernobyl accident who have
been relocated.
7th April 13:00 flight from Kiev.
My transport and translators have been arranged and i will have to pay for petrol and for student translators. im taking money out there in Dollars, as you cant change into their local currency outside of the country. ij ust need the exchange rate to sort itself out. 1.2 today... thats rediculous.. this time last year it was 1.9 pff. anyway, ill keep you posted with any updates.
thanks for your interest in my trip. :).