Welcome to our website.
This site is dedicated to changing the world; one act of random
kindness, one child at a time.
Who We Are?
Golden
Horseshoe Children of Chernobyl is a volunteer administrated, Canada
Revenue Agency Registered Charity serving Southern Ontario and Western New York. Our purpose is to facilitate and where
possible, fund respite visits to our area for children who live in areas
of Belarus
that have been subjected to radioactive contamination from the Chernobyl
Nuclear Disaster. We also endeavor to provide support to their home communities
in the areas of education, health improvement and poverty reduction.
What is Respite?
Respite is a regimen for improving the health of people
exposed to environmental toxins by removing them from the exposure. Long term
exposure to nuclear radiation suppresses the immune system and damages cells at
the molecular level. The damage contributes to birth defects, cancers,
auto-immune and other genetic disorders. These effects compound over time.
Respite reverses those effects, allowing the body to flush through the
contaminants and the immune system to rebuild. A child's two or
three-month stay in North America provides a
healthy respite from their environment during the most dangerous time of the
year, the summer. Heat dryness and summer breezes contribute to the spread of
radioactive material. Clean air, pure water and an abundance of uncontaminated
food result in a substantial improvement in the children’s health. Typically,
visual changes in the children include improvements in skin colouring,
disappearance of sores and bruising and relief from chronic coughing. Less
visible, but more important are the reductions in radiation levels and
improvements to the children’s immune systems. While in North America most
children also receive, dental, orthodontic, ophthalmologic or specialized medical
care not available to them in Belarus
How You Can Help?
Host a Child; Sponsor a Child; Have your organization
sponsor a child; Adopt a family; Support an Orphanage; Send a parcel of
necessities to Belarus. Please look around, then follow your heart and contact
us.
