CHORNOBYL HUB, the packing site of CHORNOBYL FOOD.

Hundreds of dogs live in the Chornobyl Zone - descendants of pets left behind during the 1986 evacuation. Tourists often treat them to whatever is in their pockets: sandwiches, chocolate. For a dog or a fox such a treat can be deadly. How we helped the dogs of the Zone is told by the Volunteer Center CHORNOBYL.

In the summer of 2020 Yaroslav Yemelianenko created CHORNOBYL FOOD - healthy, balanced food for dogs and foxes.

The food was put together and packed right here, in the CHORNOBYL HUB courtyard. On the tables under the umbrellas it was weighed and packed, and every pack got a label asking visitors not to feed wild animals human food. From here the packs went to our information centres in the Zone, where tourists bought them.

Later the Hub became a base for work with the American organization Clean Futures Fund and its Dogs of Chornobyl project: we met here, collected medicines and equipment, examined and temporarily sheltered Chornobyl dogs. And from 2022 animal food for the villages around the Zone that survived occupation was sent from here too.