NGO offers wisdom from Chernobyl

Kyodo

NAGASAKI — A Russian nongovernmental organization supporting children affected by the Chernobyl disaster is offering to create safer environments for Japanese youths caught up in the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

Anton Vdovichenko, a leading member of Radimichi: For the Children of Chernobyl, said in a recent interview in Japan that he wants to say to those trapped by the crisis at the radiation-leaking nuclear plant they are "not alone."

Vdovichenko, 34, said he grew up in the town of Novozybkov, an area that was designated a contamination zone even though it is about 180 km northeast of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant.

people in Fukushima, who are likely to encounter similar problems in several years.

He said the group his father Pavel set up a year after the 1986 accident to support young people in the disaster-hit areas has expertise that can help the 

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