HELP US GIVE THE CHERNOBYL TWINS A GREAT CHRISTMAS.
Tewkesbury Woman launches appeal.
Sascha and Natasha Narcavitch, the twins who stole everyone's hearts when they visited Tewkesbury three years ago, want to come back.
Mike and Jean Smith, the Mitton couple they call their Mummy and Daddy, want them here for Christmas but cannot afford the £1000 it will cost to get them here.
Now Nickie Phillipson-Stow, the Chair of Tewkesbury Chamber of Commerce has launched an appeal to help them.
She has written to all the local business people asking for a donation and so far has raised about £300.
"We got off to a great start when someone from Cheltenham sent a cheque for £100, but otherwise it has been disappointing" she said.
The twins, who are 14, first visited the Smiths six years ago, when they were in Germany with the RAF.
They were born just after the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster and suffer from bad health, as a result.
Their parents are dead and they live with their elderly grandmother, eating the vegetables she grows in the still contaminated soil.
None of the children living in the area are expected to survive much beyond the age of 20, but just one month of good food and clean air can add a year to that.
A bank account in the name of Narkavitch has been opened at the HSCB bank in the High Street, or donations can be taken to the Orange Pig children's clothes shop in the High Street.
News story date:September 25, 2000
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