During the
stay in Novozybkov Monica Antonsson was contacted by Vladimir Kozhevnikov, the
local leader of Chernobyl Union with about 75 members – liquidators, widows and
relatives. He asked for a car to the organization and Monica started to save
money privately in order to go to Vyborg, buy a care and somehow drive it to
Novozybkov.
However,
one day she met Elwe Nilsson, a politician with influence over Färdtjänsten, a
company that drives handicapped people in small minibuses. The meeting ended up
in a gift of four mini buses and one more ambulance. Therefore, in June 2000
Monica and some of her friends (among others Roger Larsson, now LC Vallentuna)
once again took the ferry over the Baltic Sea and drove through Finland to
Vyborg in Russia and after that 1200 kilometre south to Novozybkov.
The mini buses were
filled with wheel chairs, zimmer frames, crutches, paper, food and clothes.
The five cars went over the
Baltic Sea with a ferry.
After passing Finland they got stuck in the Russian custom for three
days
Chernobyl Union in
Vyborg negotiated with the custom, while we were waiting and shopping at the
crystal market
On our road to
Novozybkov we had a cable fire, a flat and a broken spring.
We met cows in the
streets and drove on ...
...roads of sand. In Novozybkov we split up our load between the members of
Chernobyl Union. During a meeting at the Administration we
gave the ambulance to the main hospital and the four mini buses to Chernobyl
Union, the maternity hospital, the
orphanages (children´s home) and to the Administration.
