Adi Roche - Chernobyl Children International

Chernobyl Children International

As founder and chief executive of the Chernobyl Children International (1991), Adi Roche has worked since 1990 to provide aid to the children of Belarus, Western Russia and Ukraine.

Under Roche's leadership, Chernobyl Children International (CCI) has delivered over €92 million to the areas most affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and has brought over 22,500 children into Ireland on Rest & Recuperation. The organization is an international development, medical, and humanitarian one that works with children and families who continue to be affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986.

Having been actively involved in the Chernobyl issue since the explosion in 1986, she organised and coordinated the first visit of Chernobyl children to Ireland on receipt of a plea from Belarus and continues to do so under the Rest and Recuperation Programme to this day. To date the programme has enabled over 22,000 children affected by the Chernobyl disaster to come to Ireland for vital medical treatment and recuperation, with terminally ill children attending the late Paul Newman’s therapeutic recreation centre at Barretstown in Co Kildare. now