Adi Roche
| Adi Roche | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Spouse(s) | Seán Dunne |
| Residence | Cork City, Ireland |
| Occupation | Humanitarian |
Adi Roche (born 1955, Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland) is a campaigner for peace, humanitarian aid and education, who has focused on the relief of suffering experienced by children in the wake of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
She is the chief executive of Irish-based charity Chernobyl Children International and in November 2010 received the Health Award at the World of Children Awards ceremony and the 2015 World of Children Alumni Award. Also in 2015, she won the Princess Grace Humanitarian Award from Prince Albert Of Monaco & the Ireland Fund.
Adi Roche was born in Clonmel, Tipperary in 1955. After finishing secondary school she went to work for Aer Lingus. She left in 1984 to work full-time as a volunteer for the Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. She devised a Peace Education Programme and delivered it in over fifty schools throughout Ireland. In 1990 she became the first Irish woman elected to the board of directors of the International Peace Bureau in Geneva.
In 1991, Roche founded the Chernobyl Children International, to provide aid to the children of Belarus, Western Russia and Ukraine.
Under Roche's leadership, Chernobyl Children International (CCI) has delivered over €100 million to the areas most affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and has brought over 25,0200 children into Ireland on Rest & Recuperation. The organisation is an international development, medical, and humanitarian one that works with children and families who continue to be affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986.
Having been actively involved in the Chernobyl issue since the explosion in 1986, she organised and coordinated the first visit of Chernobyl children to Ireland on receipt of a plea from Belarus and continues to do so under the Rest and Recuperation Programme to this day. To date the programme has enabled over 25,000 children affected by the Chernobyl disaster to come to Ireland for vital medical treatment and recuperation, with terminally ill children attending Paul Newman's therapeutic recreation centre at Barretstown in Co Kildare.
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