This nine year old boy attends a school for former child soldiers in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. His name must remain secret to protect his identity: if this revealed, her life was in danger. Thousands of children, many of them orphans, were recruited to fight the violent civil war, convinced to enlist in exchange for promises of money, food and clothing and then scattered around the country during the conflict to lose their ties with native village. They have become displaced persons. This child is an orphan and has three brothers. Now he lives in a hovel of cement with other pupils of the school. His favorite dish is rice with tomato, meat and fish mixed together. He likes football and wants to become a great teacher
"Where the children are asleep" is the latest publishing project of Fabrica, Benetton's creative lab and is published in Italy by contrast. The photographs are by James Mollison, internationally acclaimed photographer who was trained at Fabrica, has toured the world to photograph the places where children are sleeping. One way to go gently into their daily lives and discover how the children are in some respects so close together, even if they live far away and vice versa. The result of this journey around the globe is a book that speaks of today's children to turn to the adults of tomorrow and encourage them, bringing them closer to the stories of their peers, to combat social inequalities.
Source: The Repubblica.it
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