A woman from California has donated $1,000 to help bring young people with cancer caused by the Chernobyl disaster to Stone in the summer after reading about the charity effort on A Little Bit of Stone.
Patricia Lundeberg from San Diego read about the Chernobyl Children’s Project on the site and Stone co-ordinator Margie Haslop’s passionate appeal for help earlier this month. The project helps children from Belarus to recuperate from their cancers by spending a month in Stone and Patricia certainly rallied to the cause.
Patricia runs the Children of Chernobyl Foundation in San Diego, which hosted around 200 children between 1994 and 2008. Since then, when the project was ended by the US government, Patricia has made four trips to Belarus to take part in charity work.
The donation – around £630 – came as a bolt out of the blue for Margie! She said: “Patricia’s donation will more than pay for the air fare of one of the children this summer. I don’t know how this all works! It seems like magic to me that she picked up our story following the post on A Little Bit of Stone. We need plenty of magic for those lovely children in the summer.”
Despite the big donation, Margie still needs your help. Read her appeal here. Margie also said that she’d met two “lovely ladies” from Stone who want to fundraise for the project who’d also read about the charity on the site.
