PORTUGAL-UKRAINE-TOURISM-NUCLEAR-HEALTH

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY BRIGITTE HAGEMANN Victoria, 16 years old, swims in a pool in Agueda, northern Portugal on July 31, 2015. The family of Agostino and Ana Miranda receive Ukrainian Victoria since the beginning of the project "Blue Summer" in 2008, she's with this family 5 weeks per year in the summer to spend her vacations away from her hometown situated near the inactive Chernobyl nuclear power station. Since 2008, the project "Blue Summer" sponsored by an insurance company brings to Portugal Ukrainian children from villages that are a few kilometers of the inactive Chernobyl nuclear power station, to spend five weeks of vacation with Portuguese host families, the project started with 11 children and this year brought to Portugal 34 children. The aim of this project is to give this children healthier, fresh air away from the radioactive Chernobyl environment, providing a vacation with sun, sea, good food and good company. AFP PHOTO/ PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA (Photo credit should read PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images)