Original sentence: Friends of Chernobyl's Children is a charity that takes children over to Britain for one month a year (usually July) from Belarus
Edited sentence: ) that takes children over to Britain for one month a year (usually July) from Belarus.Anything that did grow was contaminated.Children born afterwards had a 800% increase in chance on contracting cancer or Leukemia.Each month that the children come over to Britain it increases their life expectancy by 2 years.Everyone was exposed to radiation via the food chain.Friends of Chernobyl's Children is a charity (Registered Charity No.It released 190 tons of radioactive waste; most of this blew over Belarus because of a southerly wind that over the next few days, especially over the towns of Mogilev and Gomel.It was on 26th April 1986 that reactor number 4 blew at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in northern Ukraine, close to the Belarussian border.The average life expectancy of a child born now in these regions of Belarus is only 32.The chances of them contracting cancer is extremely high, especially thyroid cancer, so much so that the scar on the neck after an operation for the thyroid is known as the `Belarussian Necklace.The contamination of the land will go on for another 24,000 years.The effects of this were appalling.The explosion was over 90 times more powerful than the atomic bombs at Hiroshima or Nagasaki and is the worst nuclear accident in history.These people live in radiation levels 40 times higher than is safe to live in.They stay at the house of a host family who treat them as they were their own son or daughter.This is why FOCC takes the children over for one month a year.Where once agriculture was all man did nothing would grow