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A photo exposing on Berlim brings pictures taken by childrens of various countries.

Open your eyes, look around and… klick! A world project has chosen 500 children from 43 countries of the world to register their day-by-day on photos.

Aalya Berzougui, a 15 year old girl from Marrocos, is one of them. She never travelled anywhere, but she expects to show for other youngers and children how her people live. "I wanna take pictures from our oásis, from the birds and people" says.

Project was created by Philipp Abresch, 26, a berliner student that conceived it after a work done with children on Kosovo. Now, on Zagora, Marrocos, Abresch distributed câmeras to students. Naaima Khrif, 11 years old, never took a picture. "I wanna photograph ancient buildings" says. Abresch explains: "First children will see how other countrie´s children live, by their own photos. After, thy will begin a concrete dialog, changing emails and letters."

Project, called "Your Photos Will Open My Eyes" will include children from New York, Pekim, Moscow and countries like Afghanistan, Israel, South Africa and others. Project was developed with support from GTZ, Germany Development Agency. "Photography is a good way to capture day-by-day" says Abresch. And, as smiling Berzougui´s mother explains: "She has the duty to take pictures of anything she wants."

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http://www.maikaeferflieg.de/index.html

Images: MaikäeferFlieg e.V.
Adapted from Reuters / Steve Kettmann

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