Allison is also a founding member of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption in Canada and the Belarus ’ Children of Chernobyl program that brings children affected by the Chernobyl disaster to Canada.

Twins, children of university students, refugees, Chernobyl veterans and other protected social groups are entitled to free service.

Activities include support to children, families and communities suffering long-term socio-economic, medical and psychological stresses brought on by exposure to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.

The family sailed around the world to raise € 650, 000 for the Chernobyl Children's Project, a charity which offers assistance to children affected by the 1986 accident at the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

A 2007 study of Swedish children exposed to fallout from Chernobyl while they were fetuses between 8 and 25 weeks gestation has found that the reduction in IQ at very low doses was greater than expected, given a simple LNT model for radiation damage, indicating that the LNT model may be too conservative when it comes to neurological damage.

As the Soviet Union collapsed, Interdom also became home for many children victims of the Chernobyl disaster.

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.

However, such supplements were not distributed to the population living nearest to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after the disaster, though they were widely distributed to children in Poland.

The projects visited were an orphanage in Ukraine housing children affected by the Chernobyl disaster, a climbing wall built at a youth centre in Kazakhstan, and an outreach project working with street children who live in the heating systems of apartment blocks in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

The American Belarussian Relief Organization ( ABRO ) is an American non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children located in areas of Belarus affected by the Chernobyl disaster of April 26, 1986.

" Arkadaşım Eşşek " (" My Friend Donkey "), quickly grew very popular among children ( the song is about rural nostalgia and was not initially intended as a children's song ).

My First Britannica is aimed at children ages six to twelve, and the Britannica Discovery Library is for children aged three to six ( issued 1974 to 1991 ).

Because of his old age, he only gave very short sermons saying, " My children love one another.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers ( men, women, and children ) are killed by American troops.

In My Own Utopia ( 1961 ) by Elizabeth Mann Borghese, gender exists but is dependent upon age rather than sex — genderless children mature into women, some of whom eventually become men.

" My father has been dead about a year ; my mother is living and has ten children, five lads and five lasses ; the oldest is about thirty, the youngest is four ; three lasses go to mill ; all the lads are colliers, two getters and three hurriers ; one lives at home and does nothing ; mother does nought but look after home.

My mother, who was standing by my side, leaned over and kissed her children, while tears of joy ran down her cheeks.

Schindler wanted to be buried in Jerusalem, as he said, " My children are here ".

In My Own Utopia ( 1961 ) by Elizabeth Mann Borghese, gender exists but is dependent upon age rather than sex — genderless children mature into women, some of whom eventually become men.

The news of Arthur's death caused Henry VII to break down in grief ; Elizabeth comforted him, telling him that he was the only child of his mother ( to whom she refers as My Lady ), that God had left him with a son and two daughters and that they were both young enough to have more children.

( The document, which Edward titled " My Devise for the Succession ", barred both Elizabeth and Mary, the remaining children of Henry VIII, from the throne, in favour of Lady Jane Grey.

Nonetheless, Landes defended Waksal's illegal actions at the hearings before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, portraying the forgery as " a good-faith misunderstanding ," to which Representative James Greenwood replied " My children know better than that, Mr. Landes.

My children!

" The hardest test items included asking children to repeat back 7 random digits, find three rhymes for the French word " obéisance " and to answer questions such as " My neighbor has been receiving strange visitors.

Photo taken by United States Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle on March 16, 1968 in the aftermath of the My Lai massacre showing mostly women and children dead on a road.

In the 1985 documentary Bring on the Night he was addressed by a journalist as " Gordon ", and replied: " My children call me Sting, my mother calls me Sting, who is this Gordon character?

It's also interesting to note that two character names on " My Three Sons " were obviously nods to his real life children, that of Rob ( as in Rob Douglas ) and Katherine ( Kate ); he often referred to his TV son Robbie as ' Rob ' and later TV daughter-in-law Katie Douglas as ' Kate.

In the spring he recorded a new single, " L ' enfance " ( My childhood ), the proceeds of which he donated to La Fondation Perce Neige, an association set up to help handicapped children.

* Betty Mahmoody, lecturer, advocate for the rights of women and children, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated, best-selling book, Not Without My Daughter: Escape from Iran.

Román de la Campa's Cuba on My Mind: Journeys to a Severed Nation does this by exploring Cuba's two capitals, Havana and Miami, and the hybrid position of the " one-and-half-generation " as well as by using the Elián González affair as a cipher for understanding how adults in both countries used children to achieve the broader ideological goals of the Cold War and how those goals are faring at the so-called " end of history ".

My father thought of himself first and foremost as a Frenchman, and spent a few weeks every year with the elder children at Chambord, his main property on the Loire.

In 2003, North Carolina Playwright Keith Smith wrote a one act musical play entitled " My Name is Johnny Appleseed ", which is presented to school children to show that the true story of John Chapman is just as interesting as the mythical figure, who is shrouded in legend.

" Written by Burke and his then wife, Delores Burke, and John " J. B ." Moore, " a vengeful song about getting past someone who has found a new lover, and ... inspired by Burke's marital strife ", it " features his smooth, solid voice lamenting the death of a love affair ", " Got to Get You Off My Mind " was started on 11 December 1964, just hours after Burke heard that his friend Sam Cooke had been murdered, just after Burke ate with him in a Los Angeles restaurant, and on the same day his third wife, Delores, the mother then of 11 of his children, informed him by mail that she wanted a divorce.

Glorious children of Memory and Olympian Zeus,

These unique American Memory materials and the Library ’ s other Internet services, which include the congressional database, THOMAS, the on-line card catalog, exhibitions, information from the U. S. Copyright Office and a web site for children and families called America ’ s Library, handled more than 2. 6 billion transactions last year.

Studies have shown evidence of " deficits in Working Memory Index and Full-Scale IQ as a function of prenatal exposure measured when the children reach 7 years of age.

Pai's other works include a number of books on personality development for children and teenagers, (" How To Develop Self-confidence ", " How to Achieve Success ", " How To Develop A Super Memory ", UBS Publishers ) and a series of audio book versions of Amar Chitra Katha stories, " Storytime with Uncle Pai " ( Universal Music India, Dec 2001 ), where he plays the role of narrator-storyteller.

* The Library of Congress American Memory Collection, Letters of the Delegates to Congress-Volumes 1-3 contain his letters to his children and the diaries he kept of events at the Congress ; these tell Ward's story poignantly.

The program was popular enough with Chicago area children in 1953 to inspire Frazier Thomas and Roy Brown to collaborate for a book, Garfield Goose Memory Book, with Thomas writing the story of Garfield Goose and Brown doing the illustrations for it.

In addition, McCallie's community service includes working with the Big Brothers Big Sisters " Jump " program ; serving as the Honorary Chair for the Haven House — a shelter for homeless families in East Lansing, Michigan ; serving as the Honorary Chair for the 2001 Crop Walk and the 2001-04 Memory Walks for Alzheimer's ; and holding the Joanne P. McCallie Golf Challenge benefiting children and adolescents with cancer.