Alla Barsukova has a hospice programme that assists families with seriously ill children, one of which is Slava Dikunov (7), who was born with hydrocephalus, an accumulation of fluid within the cranium causing great enlargement of the head. He suffers from head aches and convulsions. His mother Elena Dikunova says the family moved from a contaminated village after the Chernobyl accident: “Not right after, but four months later, they came and told us all people with children should leave. Our village was one of the dirtiest spots, but we were not offered anything and we found this collective farm to work and live by ourselves”. Chernobyl in the Ukraine became the site of the most infamous nuclear disaster accident of all. In 1986 the explosion of the nuclear reactor affected the lives of millions in Western Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. Both countries have plans to build new reactors to export energy to Europe.