Chernobyl's Children Centre

In 1992 the University of Alberta, with a grant of $850,000 from the Canadian government, established a medical education project in Ukraine. The program, OSVITA, meaning "enlightenment," provides Ukrainian physicians with speciality training in obstetrics, gynecology and neonatology, and pediatric specialities with the goal of improving Ukrainian health care.

OSVITA is now beginning the process of transferring control of the project to their Ukrainian counterparts. The organization's assets are owned by the Chernobyl's Children Centre (CCC), which is now a functioning and viable non-governmental organization. In October 1996, management was transferred to a new Board of Directors chosen by the Ukrainian alumni of the OSVITA training program. OSVITA continues to train native Ukranians in project management in preparation for independent operation beginning in January 1998.

When OSVITA terminates it's involvement in the program (now worth $2.3 million) the Chernobyl's Children's Centre will continue its work in Ukrainian health care.

Last updated:    January 1997

A print version of much of the information contained in this NIS Third Sector Organizations section can be found in the The Post-Soviet Handbook (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1999).

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