Valery Kuzmich, a local resident, has founded and runs the Rokitnovshchina House of Charity, a private shelter for the aged and people with disabilities in the village of Vezhytsia, the Rokitne District of the Rivne Region, Ukraine.

To understand better how contamination affects the lives of Chernobyl survivors, Greenpeace carries out two pilot investigations into the remaining radionuclide contamination of locally produced food and forests.