Alison Cameron is talking about her experience with Belarus. She was working there just 4 years after Chernobyl Tragedy happen. Her life was connected to Belarus for almost 30 years. She found working in Belarus empowering and eye opening yet dangerous and complicated. Today she is talking to us about her experience and what she was getting up to in the radioactive Chernobyl zone. Chernobyl Way March in London 25 April 2021. Assemble 12:30 - 13:00 at The Fourth Plinth monument behind the statue near the National gallery entrance (Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross, London WC2N 5NJ) See more detail regarding the event: https://fb.me/e/dleOsb8jR Chernobyl Way” 35th Anniversary Commemorative March – London – 25th April 2021 On 25th April 2021 Belarusians in the UK, together with their friends, including those from countries neighbouring Belarus, will commemorate the 35th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster which occurred on 26th April 1986. Belarus had the largest fraction of its land area contaminated with Chernobyl radioactive fallout, with over 20% of its land area either being evacuated or subject to land use controls. Most of this land is still, in 2021 out of use or subject to strict access control and monitoring. The Chernobyl radioactive contamination has resulted in health effects on the Belarus population, in particular thousands of thyroid cancers in those who were alive in April 1986, and also the continuing effects of the large scale evacuation from the areas of high contamination. This event is a reminder that many Belarusians, together with Ukrainians and Russians are still suffering from the after effects of Chernobyl. Although large numbers of Ukrainians and Belarusians were evacuated during 1986 from areas near the Chernobyl reactor, many tens of thousands lived in areas of high radioactive contamination for at least 3 years. A further evacuation programme started in 1989, which between 1991 – 2000 resulted in over 100,000 Belarusians being relocated from their homes in these contaminated areas. This event remembers those who were exposed to radioactivity where they lived for several years, and also the over 600,000 liquidators who worked in the radioactive areas to clean up some of these areas, many of whom today have health effects which may have resulted from that work. This event is also a reminder that the Chernobyl Reactor had a unique design, only used in the Soviet bloc, which was known to be dangerous and requiring special operating rules. The Chernobyl disaster reminds the world of the continuing international dangers of authoritarian regimes, which have no respect for the safety of their population. Further information about Chernobyl. Chernobyl disaster: Inside the exclusion zone and abandoned ghost town of Pripyat [Photos] https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chernobyl-disaster-inside-exclusion-zone-abandoned-ghost-town-pripyat-photos-1523628 DistanceBetween2.Com http://distancebetween2.com/gomel/chernobyl #belaruswomensfoundation