UNICEF Photoclub – Somalia
Somalia is one of the worst places in the world to be a child. While conditions vary in the regions, the years of conflict, famine, displacement, lack of health facilities or schools have taken their toll on Somalia’s children…
Somalia is one of the worst places in the world to be a child. While conditions vary in the regions, the years of conflict, famine, displacement, lack of health facilities or schools have taken their toll on Somalia’s children. More than 200,000 children are still malnourished – mostly in the south – and more than a million children of primary school age are out of school.
In March of this year, UNICEF and Arete launched a pilot project which trained 400 children along with 10 of their teachers how to use a camera and portray their everyday lives. The children themselves chose the various topics – water, food, friends and family and animals – that they wanted to capture. The photographs show another side to the story of Somali children and how, given the chance, they can produce extraordinary, creative and uplifting work.
On September 16th, 2013, Arete was asked to produce an exhibition of this body of work to be shown at the EU Parliament in Brussels to coincide with the New Deal for Somalia Conference being held on the same day. Over eighty people attended the launch of the exhibition.
The film we produced was featured on Guardian Global Development.
ClientUNICEFServicesWorkshops, video production and photographyYear2014Linkwww.unicef.org.uk
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