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We've just posted a gallery of photos of some of the 18 children whose lives were saved by a volunteer cardiac surgery team that visited Ukraine last month. Visit the Kharkiv Cardiac Kids photo album to see the kids and learn more. You can also view this short video of 2 and a half year old patient Sofia.

I'm glad to announce that, through your financial support, a volunteer surgical team led by William Novick MD has completed our first successful children's cardiac surgery mission in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Seventeen children's lives have been saved. I just got off the phone with CCPI founder Adi Roche, who attended surgery on a young girl.

Last year Delaware mom Julie Klabunde and her daughter, Riley, saw Chernobyl Heart, the 2004 film that follows Chernobyl Children's Project International through Chernobyl affected regions of Belarus.

Now you can learn about the Chernobyl disaster through video -- including videos showing Chernobyl Children's Project International at work -- on our new CCPI Channel on YouTube. Go there by clicking on the YouTube button on the right.

This 10-minute video was filmed in the fall by Ireland's RTE television, and shows Chernobyl Children's Project International volunteers in action in the Mogilev region of Belarus. One of the children prominently featured in the piece -- Victor, the little boy with the cleft palate and tracheotomy tube -- died shortly after the filming.