You are here: Homepage Tag children Articles These young women had been kidnapped by a group of Boko Haram members as young teenagers. Today they live in freedom in Maiduguri Photo: Getty Images Conflict | Nigeria Schools under attack For ten years, Boko Haram has been kidnapping people in northern Nigeria, including countless schoolchildren. But why are authorities so powerless? By Eromo Egbejule 11/11/2024 Avital Benshalom Photo: Ali Ghandtschi Shared society | Israel “How do you keep a vision of peace without sounding naïve?” Avital Benshalom runs the Hagar School in Be’er Sheva, where Jewish and Arab children learn together. How did the school continue its work after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 and the subsequent war in Gaza? Interview with Avital Benshalom 09/12/2024 Exhibition hall in the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam Photo: Max Hart Nibbrig Remembrance | Netherlands A house of loss For a very long time, the Netherlands had no national memorial to the victims of the Shoah. For the recently opened National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, the team led by director Emile Schrijver developed a new approach to commemorating the genocide By Senay Boztas 09/09/2024 Photo: Bas Losekoot Family life | South Korea The silent protest of women in South Korea The East Asian country has a demographic problem: its population is ageing rapidly but many women have no desire to have children By Hawon Jung 04/30/2024 Young people in Kenya admire the starry sky through the “SkyWatcher Flextube”, a mobile telescope Photo: Daniel Chu Owen Education | Kenya Kenya’s travelling telescope How Susan Murabana inspires Kenya’s children with astrophysics and the wonders of the starry sky By Sharon Machira 01/26/2024 Xiang Peng, seven years old, is in first class. His parents work in Guangzhou, a journey of 24 hours and 16 minutes by train from their hometown of Wanzhou. In the last six years, they have seen each other six times, each time for five to seven days during Chinese New Year. Photo: Tami Xiang Family | China “Millions of children live apart from their parents” Chinese migrant workers are often denied official residency. Many parents leave their children behind in the villages. Photographer Tami Xiang visited some of them. A conversation Interview with Tami Xiang 11/25/2023 A class at the Coqualeetza Residential School in British Columbia in 1932 Photo: United Church of Canada Archives Discrimination | Canada “Kill the ‘Indian’ in the kid” For decades, indigenous children in Canada were sent to Christian boarding schools for re-education, where many experienced abuse. Journalist Michel Jean has written about this trauma Interview with Michel Jean 11/05/2023 Happy times: Valeria and her father Valeriu Pocitari on holiday on the Greek island of Kefalonia, 2019 Photo: private Family | Republic Moldavia “We laugh together, we cry together” Valeriu Pocitari and Valeria Pocitari live over a thousand kilometres apart yet they chat almost daily. A father / daughter conversation between Moldova and Greece. Interview with Valeria Pocitari, Valeriu Pocitari 10/20/2023 Illustration: Hanneke Rozemuller Family life | Great Britain A quiet goodbye Since he can remember, there has been a deep rift between Daljit Nagra and his parents. He is ashamed of their narrow-mindedness; they despise his transformation into a “white man”. Memories of a difficult childhood By Daljit Nagra 10/16/2023 [Translate to English:] The author Kit de Waal. Photo: Sarah Lee / eyevine Family | Great Britain “My mother had about 12 jobs” Between religious fanaticism and sibling love: British author Kit de Waal describes her childhood of extremes – and talks about how it shaped her relationship with her adopted children By Kit de Waal 10/06/2023 First person | Afghanistan A walk in Kabul Girls scavenging in piles of rubbish and scarcely any cars on the streets: the Afghan capital has changed. An author takes us for a stroll in her neighbourhood By Nargis 10/01/2022 Fiction | Vietnam A hundred years of violence The Vietnamese author Nguyen Phan Que Mai tells a family tale from her war-ravaged land By Sabine Scholl 10/01/2021 A boy poses at a military weekend camp near Gdansk Photo: Natalia Kepesz, from the Niewybuch series Notes and observations | Poland “When photographing, I had to wear protective goggles” Polish photographer Natalia Kepesz travelled to her hometown of Złotoryja in southwestern Poland for her latest works. She also documented a new Polish trend, military summer camps for local children Interview with Natalia Kepesz 07/01/2021 Education The empty lunch box For many children, school provides not just education but a healthy meal. The United Nations report “State of School Feeding Worldwide 2020” reveals how the pandemic has hit those who have the least the hardest. Interview with Susanna Krüger 04/01/2021
These young women had been kidnapped by a group of Boko Haram members as young teenagers. Today they live in freedom in Maiduguri Photo: Getty Images Conflict | Nigeria Schools under attack For ten years, Boko Haram has been kidnapping people in northern Nigeria, including countless schoolchildren. But why are authorities so powerless? By Eromo Egbejule 11/11/2024
Avital Benshalom Photo: Ali Ghandtschi Shared society | Israel “How do you keep a vision of peace without sounding naïve?” Avital Benshalom runs the Hagar School in Be’er Sheva, where Jewish and Arab children learn together. How did the school continue its work after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 and the subsequent war in Gaza? Interview with Avital Benshalom 09/12/2024
Exhibition hall in the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam Photo: Max Hart Nibbrig Remembrance | Netherlands A house of loss For a very long time, the Netherlands had no national memorial to the victims of the Shoah. For the recently opened National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, the team led by director Emile Schrijver developed a new approach to commemorating the genocide By Senay Boztas 09/09/2024
Photo: Bas Losekoot Family life | South Korea The silent protest of women in South Korea The East Asian country has a demographic problem: its population is ageing rapidly but many women have no desire to have children By Hawon Jung 04/30/2024
Young people in Kenya admire the starry sky through the “SkyWatcher Flextube”, a mobile telescope Photo: Daniel Chu Owen Education | Kenya Kenya’s travelling telescope How Susan Murabana inspires Kenya’s children with astrophysics and the wonders of the starry sky By Sharon Machira 01/26/2024
Xiang Peng, seven years old, is in first class. His parents work in Guangzhou, a journey of 24 hours and 16 minutes by train from their hometown of Wanzhou. In the last six years, they have seen each other six times, each time for five to seven days during Chinese New Year. Photo: Tami Xiang Family | China “Millions of children live apart from their parents” Chinese migrant workers are often denied official residency. Many parents leave their children behind in the villages. Photographer Tami Xiang visited some of them. A conversation Interview with Tami Xiang 11/25/2023
A class at the Coqualeetza Residential School in British Columbia in 1932 Photo: United Church of Canada Archives Discrimination | Canada “Kill the ‘Indian’ in the kid” For decades, indigenous children in Canada were sent to Christian boarding schools for re-education, where many experienced abuse. Journalist Michel Jean has written about this trauma Interview with Michel Jean 11/05/2023
Happy times: Valeria and her father Valeriu Pocitari on holiday on the Greek island of Kefalonia, 2019 Photo: private Family | Republic Moldavia “We laugh together, we cry together” Valeriu Pocitari and Valeria Pocitari live over a thousand kilometres apart yet they chat almost daily. A father / daughter conversation between Moldova and Greece. Interview with Valeria Pocitari, Valeriu Pocitari 10/20/2023
Illustration: Hanneke Rozemuller Family life | Great Britain A quiet goodbye Since he can remember, there has been a deep rift between Daljit Nagra and his parents. He is ashamed of their narrow-mindedness; they despise his transformation into a “white man”. Memories of a difficult childhood By Daljit Nagra 10/16/2023
[Translate to English:] The author Kit de Waal. Photo: Sarah Lee / eyevine Family | Great Britain “My mother had about 12 jobs” Between religious fanaticism and sibling love: British author Kit de Waal describes her childhood of extremes – and talks about how it shaped her relationship with her adopted children By Kit de Waal 10/06/2023
First person | Afghanistan A walk in Kabul Girls scavenging in piles of rubbish and scarcely any cars on the streets: the Afghan capital has changed. An author takes us for a stroll in her neighbourhood By Nargis 10/01/2022
Fiction | Vietnam A hundred years of violence The Vietnamese author Nguyen Phan Que Mai tells a family tale from her war-ravaged land By Sabine Scholl 10/01/2021
A boy poses at a military weekend camp near Gdansk Photo: Natalia Kepesz, from the Niewybuch series Notes and observations | Poland “When photographing, I had to wear protective goggles” Polish photographer Natalia Kepesz travelled to her hometown of Złotoryja in southwestern Poland for her latest works. She also documented a new Polish trend, military summer camps for local children Interview with Natalia Kepesz 07/01/2021
Education The empty lunch box For many children, school provides not just education but a healthy meal. The United Nations report “State of School Feeding Worldwide 2020” reveals how the pandemic has hit those who have the least the hardest. Interview with Susanna Krüger 04/01/2021