By nic pursey | project support
Despite 18 people including 12 civilians being killed yesterday (May 18) in a suicide car bomb attack, PhotoVoice's project in the Afghan capital Kabul is underway.
An experienced PhotoVoice facilitator flew out last week to run photo-advocacy workshops in Kabul with 12 Afghan young people. The workshops are part of PhotoVoice’s new ‘Visible Rights’ project aimed at helping young people to have their say in what can be done to change their lives for the better.
The participants - all boys and girls under 16 - are learning to take photographs and write texts to tell their stories of what life in Afghanistan is really like. The workshops will teach them valuable digital media skills as well as how to speak out about issues that are important to them.
Their photographs will be shown at an exhibition in Kabul and taken out into the surrounding countryside - if the security situation permits. Also, images from the project will be disseminated regionally via our partner in Afghanistan.
The project is still in need of money to mount the exhibition and print posters. Any donation - however small - will give these youngsters a rare chance to show the world what their life is really like. Please help. Thank you.
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