Photographer James Mollison has
traveled around the world to see how children are living and where they
sleep. The results are shocking because most of them are too poor to
have a real bedroom, and the differences between the children are
enormous. This can be a wake-up call for everybody.
Lamine is 12 and lives in Senegal. He is
sleeping in a room with several other boys, and the beds are so simple
that they use bricks for legs. He works on the school farm, where they
learn how to dig, harvest maize, etc. In his spare time he loves
playing football.
Tzvika is 9 and lives in Beitar Illit,
an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. He shares his room with his
siblings. Televisions and newspapers are banned as well as sports, so
Tzivka likes to play religious computer games, and wants to become a
rabbi.
Jamie is 9 and lives with his family in a
penthouse on 5th Avenue, New York. He wants to be a lawyer like his
father so he goes to a prestigious school. Besides that he takes judo
and swimming classes.
Indira is 7 and lives with her family
in Nepal. In their house there’s only one single room where the
children shares a big mattress. She wakes up early in the morning and
works six hours a day. She also goes to school but dreams about being a
dancer when she gets older.
Kaya is 4, lives with her parents in a
small apartment in Tokyo, Japan. Her bedroom is full of clothes and
dolls. She has 30 dresses and coats, 30 pairs of shoes and a bunch of
wigs. Kaya wants to be a cartoonist when she grows up.
Douha is 10 and lives with her huge
family in a Palestinian refugee camp in Hebron, West Bank. Her brother
killed himself and 23 civilians in a suicide attack against the
Israelis in 1996. Douha wants to be a paediatrician.
Jasmine is 4, lives in Kentucky, USA,
with her parents and three brothers. She has entered more than 100
beauty pageant competitions. In her spare time she does rehearsals with
her personal trainer. Jazzy dreams of being a rock star when she grows
up.
This homeless boy and his family is
living on a mattress in a field in Rome, Italy. The family came all the
way from Romania, but when they arrived in Rome, they camped on
private land until the police threw them off. The boy’s parents clean
car windscreens because they cannot get legal work.
Dong is 9 and lives in Yunnan in
south-west China with his big family. He loves to write and sing, and
in the evenings he spends one hour doing his homework and one hour
watching TV shows. He dreams of being a cop when growing up.
Roathy is 8 and lives on Phnom Penh in
Cambodia. A huge rubbish dump is unfortunately his home, and his
mattress is made from old tyres. He wakes up at six every morning to
start work which is looking for cans and plastic bottles that they
eventually sell to a recycling company. He has only one meal per day.
Thais is 11 and lives in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, with her family. The neighbourhood she lives in are involved
with lot of gang rivalry and drug abuse, but it has undergone major
improvements. Thais wants to be a model when she gets older.
Nantio is 15 and a member of the
Rendille tribe in northern Kenya. She lives in a tent where the whole
family sleep. She went to a school village school but she quit because
she is hoping that a moran (warrior) will marry her soon. before the
marriage she has to undergo circumcision which is completely normal
where they live.
Joey is 11 and lives in Kentucky, USA.
He likes outdoor activity and to go hunting with his father, and he
already owns two shotguns and a crossbow. His first kill was made when
he was seven when he shot a deer. He also attends school and loves
watching TV while petting his dragon lizard pet.
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