Friends of Chernobyl's Children - A National Charity
In October 1994 one little Belarussian girl came to stay in Lancashire with Olwyn Keogh MBE, the now Founder / Director of the Friends of Chernobyl's Children charity. The impact of that first visit initiated the beginnings of the FOCC and the following year 50 children came from Belarus for a four week recuperative visit to East Lancashire.
Since then the charity has grown nationwide and today there are over 20 FOCC groups across the country.
Friends of Chernobyl's Children is a registered charity which devotes its energies to raising funds to bring children who are at risk, from Belarus to the United Kingdom for a month every year. The charity targets children from orphanages or disadvantaged homes, aged between six and thirteen. These children are in great need and come from social situations that make it difficult for them to get the care they require at home.
To contact the charity's founder and CEO Olwyn Keogh MBE please e-mail olwyn.keogh@btinternet.com
In October 1994 one little Belarussian girl came to stay in Lancashire with Olwyn Keogh MBE, the now Founder / Director of the Friends of Chernobyl's Children charity. The impact of that first visit initiated the beginnings of the FOCC and the following year 50 children came from Belarus for a four week recuperative visit to East Lancashire.
Since then the charity has grown nationwide and today there are over 20 FOCC groups across the country.
Friends of Chernobyl's Children is a registered charity which devotes its energies to raising funds to bring children who are at risk, from Belarus to the United Kingdom for a month every year. The charity targets children from orphanages or disadvantaged homes, aged between six and thirteen. These children are in great need and come from social situations that make it difficult for them to get the care they require at home.
To contact the charity's founder and CEO Olwyn Keogh MBE please e-mail olwyn.keogh@btinternet.com
Alison Shepherd, Coordinator of the Northallerton Group, has been involved with the charity in various capacities for over a decade. Initially fundraising on the charity's behalf whilst her own children were at pre-school, she was eventually persuaded to join the committee and was the group's fundraiser before becoming coordinator in 2016. Together with other committee members, she visits local groups and associations together with co-coordinator, Linda Spence (also the group's safeguarding officer), to give talks and presentations to promote the charity. If you would like us to come and talk to your group, please get in touch. Tel. 07795 142 855 / alison.shepherd@tiscali.co.uk.
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