my recent trip to Mallin Hospital in Ukraine

Hi folks,
I have not posted anything for several weeks, so I thought I better do so now. I went of on my annual journey to help the children in Mallin Hospital, also going to help abandoned or abused children in Kobyln village in N.W. of the country. I left money at Kobyln Centre to pay for another additional operation for a little boy almost 5 years old who needs a cataract operation. The first operation was carried out in Kiev at the start of 2011 this operation carried out before the damage to his eye caused by a needle was performed just in time If a few more weeks had gone his damaged eye would have been inoperable.Early next year I hope he will finally get the cataract removed and a new one manufactured in the USA fitted.

My Book Launch

Hi Folks. I am still fund raising for Mallin Hospital Childrens Department, in the Zhitomir Region of Ukraine.
Waterstones Bookshop at 153 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow are holding a book launch for my recently published book, which I mentioned in my last blog.
The launch of my book takes place on Friday 7th. October 2011 from 17:30hrs. untill 19"00hrs. all proceeds from the sale of the book will be taken over to the hospital by me in Nov. this year.
Hope you can come along on the night.
Thank you,
Jim Gillies.

To Chernobyl With Love

I will be holding a book sale Event in St.Enoch shopping Centre, St. Enoch Square, Glasgow. My book sale will take place in the lower Mall area of St. Enoch Centre on Saturday 13 August 2011 between 09:00 hrs. and 17:00 hrs.
All the money raised from my book sale will be used to help the sick and orphaned children in Mallin Hospital. I will be retuning to the hospital in November 2011 taking any money I have raised to help the children.
I will also be visiting a Children's Rehabilitation Centre in Koblyn, near the small town of Ovruch where I went for the first time last year (2010 ) as Bohdan Sobolevski a little boy from Mallin Hospital has been moved to there,along with his sisters.
Details of my book can be seen at www.jimschernobyl.com
I have always paid my own expenses going from Cumbernauld, in Scotland to Ukraine and will continue to do so.
I have added a video taken in Kobyln of the children singing
thank's Jim Gillies.

Photo's

Photographs from Kiev ,Mallin and others

update on my book

Hi Friends, My book about my travels to Ukraine from Scotland to help sick children has been selling slowly but steadily.
However I would ask anyone who would like to help the Mallin Hospital children to consider buying a copy of the book.
It is called "To Chernobyl With Love " costs £7:99 details can be seen on www.jimschernobyl.com or Amazon Books.
I will definitely be returning to Mallin Hospital late Oct. early November 2011 paying all my own expenses as usual.
The more books I can sell between now and mid-October means more money for the hospital in Mallin Ukraine.
Thank You. From the little hospital girl in the photo

my book,about my travels to Ukraine to help children

My book called "TO CHERNOBYL WITH LOVE " has been published by Waverley Publications Glasgow, Scotland,UK.
The ISBN 978-1-84934-188-2. The book can be purchased on either www.jimschernobyl.com or through Amazon Books.
All profits from the my book will be used to help the sick and orphaned children in Mallin Hospital, Ukraine. People who have read the book have told me that it was a good read. I will be returning to Mallin Hospital later this year, 2011 to help the children. I hope to be able to visit a children's rehabilitation centre in Kobyln village, near the small town of Ovruch. I will post another blog nearer the date of my departure to Ukraine. The more books I sell, means more help for the hospital children.
Thank you.

My Book being Published

Next week on 15 the. April 2011, a book I have written along with a Journalist friend will be published when I have the ISBN Number I will post another Blog with the details.
The Book contains photographs both from the hospital and my bus journeys from Scotland to Ukraine and back.

Bohdan's operation

I am happy to say that the operation on Bohdan's eye has been successfully carried out by Dr. Elena Akimenko at a hospital in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital. He is now back with his sisters and other abandoned or abused children in Kobyln Rehabilitation Centre
after several months there he will be moved to an orphanage. A further visit to the hospital will take place in a year when another lens is going to be fitted to his eye. But the important fact is he can now see with both eyes which is fantastic. When I have any more news regarding Bohdan's situation I will put in on a blog.
My annual Chernobyl Vigil is going to be on Tuesday 26 April 2011 in George Square, Glasgow, Scotland. This is going to be my twenty fifth annual Chernobyl which will begin at 08:00 hours finishing at 20:00 hours.
Watching the news coverage of the catastrophic earthquake and Tsunami in Japan with hundreds of thousands of people suffering is terrible. Having the ever present threat of radiation from Fukushima Nuclear Power Station arriving must be impossible to comprehend for all living in Japan.

Bohdan an update.

Bohdan Sobolevski the wee boy I mentioned in my last blog, was recently examined by Doctors in Kiev. One of his eyes has no vision at all, but the good news is that an operation can be carried out which will save his sight. I was happy to hear this news and people on hearing of his plight have kindly donated money to help towards the cost of his operation. Hopefully his operation will take place soon, once I hear that it has taken place successfully I will post a blog about this. His 4th. birthday was earlier this month, despite his problems he runs about just like the other children at the centre where he lives.