LCIF
Grant Application for contribution to the
Lions project Children of Chernobyl /
Novozybkov
The project aims at restoring two existing buildings
at the Maternity
hospital in Novozybkov, Bryansk region, Russian Federation
Where life begins…
Lions Clubs International
Multiple District 101 Sweden - District 101-S
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Table of Contents
To Lions Clubs
International Foundation (a map) …………………….……… 4
Grant application
………………………………………………….……………. 5
Summary
…………………………………………………………….…………... 7
The Project plan,
goal and history …………………………………………….. 10
The Project
management
in Sweden and in Russia
…………..….…………………………………… 11
The Project
……………………………………………………………………… 12
Economy
…………………………………………………………….…………… 13
Buying contractors/Budget/estimate
costs
Maternity Hospital building B Budget/estimate costs
Maternity Hospital gynaecological
department, building A
Maternity Hospital
building B and A
WAT
……………………………………………………………………….. 14
Money transferring between
Lions Clubs
International Sweden and
Maternity Hospital ……………………………... 15
Time Table, Building A, building B, furniture and
equipment …………………. 16
Inspections,
final statements
…………………………………………………… 17
Example of inspection
certificate ………………………………………….. 18
Novozybkov – a
background ………………………………………………….. 20
Old
Believers ………………………………………………………………. 21
Where the prices were settled
……………………………………………… 22
World war II ……………………………………………………………….. 22
Chernobyl catastrophe
……………………………………………………... 23
The forgotten city
.......................................................................................…
24
The world just has to help
…………………………………………………. 26
The Project – The Lions project Children of Chernobyl /
Novozybkov ……….. 27
How it started
………………………………………………………………. 28
To define a project
…………………………………………………………. 30
Conclusion
…………………………………………………………………. 31
Agreements ……………………………………………………………………. 33
Agreement on Cooperation ………………………………………………… 34 Agreement to realize the Maternity Hospital project ……………………… 36 Agreement concerning medical equipment to the Maternity Hospital ……. 39 Protocol from the meeting …………………………………………………. 40 Cooperation agreement with Medical Department in Bryansk ……………. 46
The first report from the Medical department ……………………………... 50
Agreement between LCI MD 101 and the Savings Bank of Novozybkov … 52 Certificate that dr Lydia Vladimirovna Bavkunova has the right to sign ….. 54 Certificate from the Russian Assessment (Taxes) Authority ………………. 57
Agreement between dr Lydia and the building contractor ………………… 58 Registration certificate / license for the constructors company ……………. 61 Information from dr Lydia Vladimirovna Bavkunova ……………………. 75
The
Buildings ………………………………………………………………….. 76
The House of the Angel –
Maternity hospital, sight plan …………………. 77
Building A ……………………………………………………………………….. 79
Drawings and pictures
…………………………………………………….. 80
Special investigation of
the buildings condition ………………………….. 84
Budget
…………………………………………………………………….. 87
Building materials and
economic calculations ……………………………. 88
Building B ……………………………………………………………………….. 105
Drawings and pictures
……………………………………………………. 106
Time table, pay ment term
……………………………………………….. 109
Budget
……………………………………………………………………. 110
Building materials and
economic calculations …………………………… 111
Back ground - Chernobyl a continuing catastrophe – Kofi
Annan ….…………. 135
The holy Bible: An the
third angel sounded… …………………………… 137
The Chernobyl Catastrophe
– The story ………………………………….. 138
The radioactive fall out
……………………………………………………. 140
The situation in the three
most affected countries ………………………… 142
The liquidators
……………………………………………………………. 143
The leaking sarcophagus
………………………………………………….. 144
Medical effects
……………………………………………………………. 145
Medical effects in other
countries – some telegrams ……………………… 147
Long term health effects
…………………………………………………… 154
Psychological and Social effects
…………………………………………… 154
Economic effects …………………………………………………………… 155
Environmental effects
……………………………………………………… 155
Persisting Dangers of Further
Radioactive Contamination ……………….. 156
April 26, 2004 - 18 years after – some articles ………………..………………. 157
Assessment of Chernobyl Health Consequences Resisted ……………………. 172
The Chernobyl Catastrophe and Health Care (Prof Michel Fernex) ………... 180
The House of the Angel, the first project plan 2003-02-20 …………………… 201
The map ………………………………………………………………………... 221
New paper cuttings ……………………………………………………………. 222
Protocol from the Swedish governors council meeting in Denver ……………… 251
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LCIF
Lions Clubs International Foundation
(LCIF)
Grant Application for contribution to:
The Lions project
Children of Chernobyl / Novozybkov
Bryansk region,
Russian Federation
Enclosed please find the Grant Application for
contribution to renovation of two existing buildings at the Novozybkov
maternity hospital according to the following documents.
Chernobyl
in Ukraine and Novozybkov in Russia, at the border of both Ukraine and Belarus,
are situated about 1200 kilometres from Stockholm,
the capital of Sweden.
Summery
The explosions in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
in Ukraine April 26, 1986 was the start of the worst technological catastrophe
ever.
In the West most people already have forgotten all
about it. It was a long time ago, we say. By now it is history.
In Ukraine, Belarus and Russia the Chernobyl
catastrophe is a continuing disaster. The melt down is still burning and
radioactive dust still leaks out through hundreds and hundreds of holes in the
sarcophagus full of rust (erosion). The holes are equivalent to least 250
square meters. In fact, one can easily see them when coming close enough to the
exploded reactor where it is very polluted and dangerous to be.
For instance, the helicopter pilots, who now and
then takes guest on a tour over the 30 kilometre exclusion zone absolutely
refuse to fly closer to the reactor than 10 kilometres. The reason is all the
radioactive dust that is coming up. It blows away with the winds and is spread
all over the world. No one talks about it. No one really knows where it falls
down.
In Ukraine the measure the radioactivity
(Cesium-137) in micro roentgen (X-ray) per hour. They call 15-25 normal, which
in fact it is not. Outside reactor 4 the value vary between 1300-1700 mR/h.
There are other places at the plant where it is over 2000 mR/h, that is the
most the Geiger counter can show.
See: Chernobyl a Continuing Catastrophe.
Foreword by Kofi Annan to a OCHA-report published by
United Nations 2000, page 135.
This is why the USA now helps Ukraine to build a new
sarcophagus over the first one. The radioactive dust blowing around has to be
stopped. But some experts say – among them the Swedish senior lecturer in
reactor technology Frigyes Reisch – that since the melt down burning, there is
a great risk even with a new sarcophagus (without holes). If the temperature
gets too high, there will be a new explosion. Anyway, something has to be done,
since there is a great risk, that the sarcophagus any day collapse and give
rise to a new explosion.
And since rain water is coming in, there is also a
risk for explosion if some special substances inside the reactor happens to
meet and react with each other and with water. In that case we will get a so
called critical mass.
The sun shines in through the holes in the sarcophagus
and the radioactive dust goes out in the open.
The nuclear power station in Chernobyl is situated in Ukraine close to the Belarusian border. Novozybkov is in Russia 70 kilometre from Gomel.
The sarcophagus over the exploded reactor 4 in Chernobyl is so full of rust.
Coming close one can easily see it.
That means:
That the people who was born at the time for the
accident, still are at risk for different illnesses in their thyroid gland
(because of exposion to radioactive Jod-131). There is a great increase in
Thyroid cancer to those who were children 1986.
Cesium-137 is suppose to cause leukaemia, while
Strontium-39 is stored in the bones and so on.
But that is just the beginning. The people of the
polluted areas suffers from a lot of different diseases that can be referred to
the accident.
See: The Chernobyl
Catastrophe and Health Care, page 180.
They also have to accept great restricts in their
daily life. Without risk for their lives, they cannot pick berries or mushrooms
in the forests anymore. They can not swim in the rivers or the lakes during
warm summer days and of course, they can not go fishing. This is small simple
things that we in the West usually call life quality. To them it is a question
of surviving.
They just have to get food.
In the polluted areas there is no soil but
radioactive one to grow vegetables like potatoes, union, carrots, cabbage and
root beets in – that most people live from. Cows and sheep eat radioactive
grass which give radioactive milk and radioactive meat. So, what can people do
but eat? Starve to death? And since most people in small houses have to heat
them by radioactive wood from the forests, the radioactivity came indoors as a
deadly company.
So, while we in the West have forgotten about the
Chernobyl accident, it slowly but surly injury and kill people who can not
escape. There are no trustable statistics whatsoever about the medical
consequences. The doctors in the areas are not aloud to give true reports,
since a connection between an illness and Chernobyl means great damages for
causing the accident for the authorities. Of several but other reasons even the
western reports do not tell the truth. That means that the people of the
polluted areas in the three countries are left alone with their problems.
We think that is wrong.
The world just has to help. It is our mutual responsibility.
And where governments and authorities around the world have failed, the
Lions Clubs can succeed. It is the right thing to do, it is a good thing to do
and it can give our organisation a lot of good will that we deserve.
MD101-Sweden have chosen to do something good - within the Lions project Children of
Chernobyl / Novozybkov - in the forgotten town Novozybkov, since we Swedish
Lions Clubs already have worked a lot there.
See about Novozybkov, page 20 and the
following pages and how it started page 28.
We decided to restore the two existing buildings at
the Maternity hospital in the radioactive polluted town Novozybkov in Bryansk
region in Russia. That will help 700 women, their babies and their families
every year. Besides, the staff who tries to work in those terrible buildings
will get better possibilities to take care of their
patients.
See facts about the buildings, page 76
and following papers about
building A and building B.
See also “The House of the Angel”, the
project plan 2003-02-20, page 201.
In May 2003 the Swedish convent accepted to go
through with the project and with the collected 65 crowns per Swedish member
(now 900 000 crowns = 118 655 USD) and a grant of 75 000 USD from LCIF we will
succeed to do so.
See: total budget at page: 13
And separate Building A page 87 and
Building B page 110.
The project management went to Novozybkov
to get some agreements with the Administration of the town, the local bank and
the tax authorities.
That ended up in an absolutely unique
decision from Kreml, that we do not have to pay WAT taxes (18 per cent) for the
material to this project. We have got a water proof routine to handle the bills
and a so called dollar account that makes it easy to transfer money without
extra costs.
Also we have an agreement with the
Medical Department in Bryansk who provided us with the best possible control
function.
See agreements: page 33 and following
pages.
There are other Children of Chernobyl
project in the world. Therefore it is well known, that such projects gives
remarkable attentions as well as sympathies everywhere. People know about the
accident and with the right information they understand and directly want to
help. It seems like everyone can identify themselves with the victims in the
polluted areas.
Tomorrow they can be victims themselves. That is the tragic truth.
A relation to the Chernobyl accident is, in other words, an unbeatable argument
when it comes to 1)get help to humanitarian aid and 2) to get good publicity
and good will. That is nothing to be ashamed of. Every line that is written
helps the people of Chernobyl.
Last year, at the 17th
anniversary of the accident, the Swedish television presented Novozybkov, our
project and Lions Club in all news magazines. Before that the name of Lions
Club were not mentioned in TV for at least 20 years.
See also news paper cuttings where Lions
Club is mentioned, page 222 and following pages.
