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Empowering 1,00,000 adolescents through photography

Staff Correspondent
A five-day photo exhibition showcasing creativity of a few unprivileged adolescents from rural areas was launched last Sunday at a city hotel. The aim was to inspire them to express their views through photographs.
■TheTaunching Ceremony ofthe exhibition, titled 'Do you see my world?' was joindy organised by Unicef, European Commission, Bangladesh and Pathshala, South Asian Institute of Photography.
The exhibition -- now on at Drik
Gallery - highlights the unique experience and the challenges faced by adolescent boys and girls living in rural areas. The exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The exhibition is the result of a three-month project. Thirty young people from- Jamalpur, Chapainwababgan'j’ and Barguna (aged 14 to 18) received a five-day photographic training course and were given a digital camera for a week. During the week, they snapped around 9,000 photos and later com-
pleted selecting, editing and writing captions.
The adolescents have been selected to participate in a longer-term project supported by Unicef -funded by the European Union -and will be implemented by the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs, aiming at empowering about 1,00,000 adolescents in the country. > ' i
The exhibition at Drik Gallery in Dhaka will end on November 27. It will also take place later at Public Library at Bakultala in Jamalpur from December 6 to 11, at Nawabaganj Town Club of
Chapainawabaganj on December 17 to 22 and at TNO Office at Barguna from December 7, 2009 to January 1,2010.
Dr. Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury, secretary, Ministry of Information, was present as the chief guest, while Dr. Stefan Frowein, ambassador and head of dplega^iqn of the European Commission to Bangladesh and Carel De Rooy, country representatives, Unicef were present as special guests at the inaugural session.
Carel De Rooy said, “As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of
the Convention on the Rights of the Child, our first commitment is to give an avenue to young people so that they can tell us about their lives, their hopes and fears.”
Social progress can only be achieved when children's rights are high in the political agenda and addressed as a systematic and distinct concern, said Dr Stefan Frowein.
The launch was also streamed live on the web at www.drik/ doyouseemyworld. A photo essay is also available on www.unicef.org.bd.