A group of children who are battling cancer as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have visited the UK.
Staying with host families in Endon, near Stoke-on-Trent, they enjoy activities and outings they could never dream of at home.
As these photographs show, one of the highlights was going to the seaside in North Wales, a rare privilege for people in landlocked Belarus.
They also enjoyed trips to Alton Towers, Chatsworth House and Poole's Cavern in Buxton, Derbyshire.
Ongoing problems linked to contamination from the radioactive cloud that lingered over Belarus have caused high rates of cancer and rare disabilities among scores of youngsters.
Last week the Daily Mirror revealed the harrowing stories of children being afflicted by radiation 30 years after the Chernobyl disaster.
It is feared those living in hotspots worst hit by the poisonous cloud in 1986 could continue to suffer for several generations as it takes hundreds of years for the dangerous isotopes to decay.
Thanks to British volunteers, some children who have been in hospital in the poor Eastern European nation are able to take a break from their gruelling treatment.
The Chernobyl Children’s Project organises a three-week trip to the UK for a group of young patients currently in remission from cancer.
Four-year-old Anhelina Snitko fell ill in 2013 when she was only two. She underwent a long course of chemotherapy which only ended last summer.
At her lowest point, she was taken into intensive care for a month.
She was accompanied on the trip by her mother Tania, 32, born two years before Chernobyl.
Charity founder Linda, from Glossop, said: “Our first group of children came to spend a four-week holiday in Britain in the summer of 1995.
“Two years later we brought our first group of children in remission from cancer with their mothers. Their mothers had been through such a stressful time, they were almost as much in need of a holiday as their children.
“We have since hosted many groups of children under eight years old and their mums. These children have never had a holiday abroad before and the experience provides a great boost.”
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