Five million people still live in the areas contaminated with radiation after the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986. They know the radiation is around but have little choice. Leaving the place is not an option for them either. Valery Kuzmich of the village of Vezhytsia, Rokitne district of the Rivne region, Ukraine, runs a private shelter for aged people and people with disabilities for which he gave up his own house. Eleven people from all over Ukraine live there. Some of them come from the contaminated areas, and their diseases and disabilities, Valery Kuzmich thinks, are caused by radiation.