SummaryThe Igovka Internet project provides information to the international community about the life, activities, problems, hopes and dreams of people living in a contaminated settlement as they are seen, understood and experienced by the children of the Igovka village school. It has also allowed the implementation of an Internet communication facility in one of the areas of Belarus most affected by Chernobyl, enabling schoolchildren, their teachers and other people from the village to foster contacts with their friends all over the world and to find new friends and opportunities.
Fedor Fleshtor
Director of Gomel regional agency
of economic development
PartnersThe Igovka internet project was an idea of the village school´s students and was made possible thanks to the support of the internet platform www.chernobyl.info of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Students from the University of applied sciences, department HyperWerk, Basel, Switzerland and from the European Humanities University, Minsk, Belarus, helped with the development of "Life in a village".
LanguageThe students of Igovka´s village school "want to make friends with people from other countries", as one of them, Katya Melnikova, writes in the "Statements" section of this website. That is one of the reasons why "Life in a village" is published in English only, while all the rest of www.chernobyl.info comes in Russian and German as well. The other reason is that working on this website is part of the English and of the Computer classes at the village school.
StatisticsIgovka village is situated in an area of radioactive caesium contamination of a density of 6.2. The population of the village is 629, that is 202 men, 243 women, 184 children. As for nationalities there are 614 Belarussians, 7 Ukrainians, 8 Russians. Most of the villagers work on the collective farm “New Way”. The educational infrastructure of the village includes one kindergarten attended by 17 children and one high school. At present there are 155 students at the school.
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School building in Igovka
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Location of Igovka in Belarus
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Students of Igovka-school
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