06/23/2022 – 16:35

Save the Children Germany registered association

Berlin/Geneva (ots)

“Birth, the first smile, the first tooth: when we think of children, we usually think of beautiful moments. But millions of children around the world can’t celebrate any of this. Their lives are determined by other milestones: they experience their first war, their first epidemic, they are experiencing displacement.”

With these haunting words, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi opened the photo exhibition “I live. Ten children, ten wars, ten decades – and a baby” by Save the Children.

In view of the war in Ukraine and more than 100 million people displaced by wars and displaced persons, the topic could hardly be more topical: the show presents photographs from the book “I live. How children survive wars. A portrait of the century”, published for the 10th anniversary of Save die children arose.

“All these stories say the same thing,” Filippo Grandi pointed out. “When you save a child, when you ensure their protection, when you invest in their future, not only will they stay alive, they will live on to give all of this back with all their might a million times over.”

For the project, Save the Children communications director Martina Dase and the Swiss photographer Dominic Nahr are visiting eleven people from different regions and generations who grew up during the war and whom the children’s rights organization was able to help. Their compelling life stories and photographs testify to the cruelty of these conflicts, but also to the positive impact help and support can have.

The exhibition can be seen in the Palace of the Nations League (Building E, 1st floor, Bar Serpent) until July 6, 2022. Registration is required at: https://indico.un.org/event/38103/.

The book accompanying the exhibition “I live” was published in German and English by Kerber Verlag in November 2020 and is available in stores.

Overall concept “I live”: Martina Das

Photography: Dominik Naher

Guest authors: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Ingo Zamperoni, Jon Swain, Anne Watts, Margrethe Vestager, Ban Ki-moon, Professor Wole Soyinka, Mayte Carrasco, Marcel Mettelsiefen, Ulrike C. Tscharre, Amir Hassan Cheheltan, Dr. Gerd Müller

ISBN 978-3-7356-0632-7

More information: www.savethechildren.de/ich-lebe

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About Save the Children: Founded in post-war 1919, the British
Social reformer Eglantyne Jebb Save the Children to get children in
save Germany and Austria from starvation. Today died
The largest independent children’s rights organization in the world
around 120 countries. Save the Children is committed to children
in wars, conflicts and disasters. For a world dying
respect children’s rights. A world where all children are healthy and
live safely and be able to grow up and learn freely and independently
– for over 100 years.

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