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Ana Palacios

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The rescue of a slave child
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The rescue of a slave child
Copyright Ana Palacios 2024
Date of Work Jul 2015 - Feb 2018
Updated Feb 2020
Topics Art, Children, Discrimination, Documentary, Domestic Violence, Education, Family, Freedom, Health/Healing, Homelessness, Hope, Human Rights, Hunger, Illegal Trafficking, Isolation, Lifestyle, Loss, News, NGO, Orphans, Photography, Poverty, Sorrow, Travel, Youth
What happens after a child in slavery escapes? How are their broken childhoods rebuilt? Is there a way out?

This documentary project documents the experience of thousands of children who are bought and sold as slaves in West Africa, the region with the world's highest rate of child labour. Her work shows that there is a way out for these victims of modern slavery, a “back door” which some of them manage to find, open and step through to live their lives in freedom.

Various NGOs work in the area, caring for them in centers intended to repair these broken childhoods and reintegrate them in society following five steps: slavery, identification, rehabilitation, family reintegration and job oportunities.

www.thebackdoorproject.net
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