Children of Juba

Free entry

Exhibition, which tells the daily life of children in Juba, the capital of South Sudan). Presented by the photographer and painter Agnieszka Balut, 19 photographs, 8 collages and 4 oil on canvas paintings.

Of the 3.4 million children born in South Sudan, which in 2011 became the youngest country in the world, around 2.6 million were born during the war.

South Sudan, three out of four children born after independence, knows nothing but war.

All the photographs detached and presented in the exhibition come from Juba, the capital of South Sudan and the surrounding area. In a camp for displaced people, in centers for homeless children - orphanages, in a centers for children and teenagers, victims of sexual abuse, in primary schools and on the streets of the capital. I took several photos, some of which are in the presentation.

The answer is simple: to show how people and especially children live in one of the poorest countries in the world. They don't want to emigrate, leave their country. They want to live in “home”. They just need our support to live in their country, in their world. The Swiss South Sudan Association is responsible for the exhibition.