A YOUNG Belarusian athlete living in a town ravaged by nuclear disaster is now an Olympic hopeful – after a little help from an East Grinstead charity and a friendly family in Horsted Keynes.Sasha Dakhno, 18, was one of the first groups of children to be brought to Mid-Sussex in 2001 by the East Grinstead branch of the charity Friends of Chernobyl's Children (FOCC) when he was seven years old.Sasha's own hometown, Mogilev, was very badly affected by the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe, in ...
