Monica Antonsson Vallentuna
August 11, 2006
Project manager
The Lions Project Children of Chernobyl
/ Novozybkov
Bällstavägen 55B, 186
50 Vallentuna, Sweden
Tel +46-8-511 74
771, fax +-46-8-511 728 24
Mobile
+46-70-593-09 57
Dear Mayor Nesterov,
For the opening of the red building at
Novozybkovs maternity hospital and the Day of the Town September 9-10, 2006, a
Swedish delegation of 12 persons is coming to Novozybkov. It is three leading
members of the Lions Club (Frideborg, Bertil and Björn) with partners, two
journalists from our local newspaper in Vallentuna (Jesper and Pär), the
project team (Anders, Roger and Monica) and Elsa-Gun who is a good friend who will
help us in the future. You have met the three representatives from Lions Club
before. They are nice, they are our friends.
We will travel to Kiev, Chernobyl and Gomel
before coming to Novozybkov. We will leave Novozybkov for Kiev Monday September
11.
After this the Lions Clubs mission in this
project will be fulfilled. As you know, the project team wanted to go on with
sending medical equipments, education of the staff and restoring of the
children's clinic at the main hospital. The question was handled by Lennart
Ahrnlund. He did not do it properly, so Lions Club said no. The organisation
will now go on with a project in Romania next year.
There is, however, a possibility that Lions
Club can come back to Novozybkov in one, two or three years. It is a question
of how we together will handle the situation. Therefore I ask you to do this
opening day unforgettable for our delegation. It is very important that
Frideborg, Bertil, Björn and the others returns to Sweden with the best of
impressions. All other leading Lions must regret, that they did not come.
It would be very good if you can invite
president Grishin, Chernobyl Union, dr Larisa Baleva and the Lions Club in
Moscow to the opening of the hospital. Since we are travelling via Kiev, we can
not meet them in Moscow. If you want, I can help you to contact Lions Club.
We will arrive to Novozybkov September 7.
It would be wise, if we can meet with you in the morning September 8 at your
office. I ask you to – once again - tell us about the medical, social and
economical situation in Novozybkov due to the Chernobyl accident. I also ask
you to - once again – show us the Childrens clinic at the main hospital.
The representatives from Lions must see the
building with their own eyes. You did a great job last time, if you see what I
mean J. Do not lie, but tell us all the
worst. I am sure that, these three persons much better than Lennart Ahrnlund
will be able to tell about the clinic after returning to Sweden. Especially
Björn who is a medical chief doctor.
The journalists in the group will get a lot
of material for their articles and I will get a lot of pictures to put at a
special homepage at internet. From that homepage we will ask and beg the world
for money to restore the clinic. It is a chance. It might not work, but it
might also give millions of roubles. I think we have to try.
As you remember from the opening of the
white building 2004, the top chief in Lions Club at the time, Håkan Johansson, just
might have been giving you some sort of hopes or promises about the
children's clinic. Then came Lennart Ahrnlund and after him Melker Lindquist
who probably made you sure of a future ongoing cooperation. If you feel
disappointed over any broken hopes or promises, I think you shall tell us about
it. Not much but a little. It would be good for the future, if Frideborg,
Bertil and Björn in that case get to know about it. But be very, very
careful.
To your knowledge, the project team will
not stop supporting Novozybkov. Together with Elsa-Gun, Roger, Anders and a lot
of others I will go on with the project. Our only question is how to get
resources. However, we have some ideas:
- We have a new organisation by the name
of: (Help to) Children of Chernobyl.
- We will do the homepage I mention above.
It is a chance.
- Our new organisation will write letters
to 500 different Lions Clubs and ask for money.
- We will arrange concerts at Vallentuna
theatre at least every month to collect money
- We will lock around for another
humanitarian aid-organisation than Lions Club who can help us to go on working
in Novozybkov.
If you have plans for our stay in
Novozybkov, if there is something you like to show us or want us to take part
in, please let me know about it in time, since also I make plans for our stay.
I am grateful to everything you do and I do not want us to disagree about
schedule.
Sincerely yours
Monica Antonsson
Frideborg Rydmalm Hagman
Bo Hagman
Bertil Ravnell
Eva Ravnell
Björn Palmer
Marja Palmer
Pär Davérus
Jesper Almén
Anders Rönnholm
Monica Antonsson
Roger Larsson
Elsa-Gun Gustafson
