A TEACHER is jetting off on a mission to help a Russian town devastated by nuclear disaster.
Peter Armitage, of Carnforth High School, will travel with a convoy of humanitarian aid to Zudac in Belarus - an area badly affected by fallout from the Chernobyl power station explosion in 1986.
Farmland around Zudac has been contaminated for years, causing economic decline, birth defects and health problems.
The aid convoy, organised by the charity Heart Hope Help, will supply the town with essentials such as food, clothes and medicine, while the drivers will help refurbish a hospital ward damaged by fire last year.
The pupils, parents and teachers of Carnforth High School and Hornby St Margaret's Primary School have been involved with raising money, collecting, sorting and packing boxes of aid for the project.
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