National Geographic Sights & Sounds: Chernobyl - it remains the world's worst nuclear disaster, a catastrophe of monumental proportion that—20 years later—continues to claim victims.

Chernobyl – Twenty Years, Twenty Lives is EarthVision's photo journalistic journey through the countries of the Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Latvia, Sweden, France, and UK. It follows twenty people in their daily lives nowadays and reflects on how they changed after the events of April 1986. The goal of the project is to learn from the history and look at the accident from the present perspective at different levels, both locally and globally.

Meet Natalia Ivanovna Ivanova
Deputy Director, Vesnova Orphanage, Mogilev Oblast, Belarus

It was terrible having to knock on the door or window in the middle of the night to tell the parents that their children should be evacuated the next morning. We said it was because of the radioactivity, which could have bad consequences for all of them. We arranged a place for everyone to gather to be put on buses. It was a dreadful sight."