The International Charitable Foundation "Children of Ukraine" was founded in 1991 by the liquidator of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and retired military leader Genin Igor Borisovich in order to dedicate the rest of his life to service to society. Finding like-minded people among old comrades-in-arms and Chernobyl liquidators, whose fate was scattered in different parts of the world, offices were opened in the United States, Bulgaria, Romania, and Germany.