Ethiopia / by KARIN-BAM STOWE

Working for Save the Children UK, I met young hero’s fighting against the barbaric practise of FGM. These school girls and boys, were risking to fight against the bringers of this horror. They had to be masked to try and save their identities. Amazing the youth quake that is occurring across the planet as children fight to save their futures, which are being undermined by the Man-Without. I filmed their story and was schooled by their bravery in the face of challenging archaic practices.   To see film go to HERE  

Later I travelled to the boarder of Sudan and followed a cold chain supply of vaccine to a remote village to immunise the children.  It was like travelling to a biblical location, where few white’s had been seen. I meet a family and heard their story of woe. I was truly an outsider, my camera equipment could pay to support the families for a year. The extremities of with and without are so severe that in my 30 years of travel it seems the gulf is wider than social media ever. How to connect the world towards an equality of resources that nourishes all? Still perplexed.  To see film go to HERE

The children meet at school to plan their protest actions and how best to show their disdain for FGM.

She is the face of the campaign and started the process of protest, she is 11 years old and prepared to risk all too help. Hail GenZ, they are taking the future on.

Young boys are standing up to their forefathers barbarous beliefs.

This mother had lost 2 children to diphtheria and whooping cough in the last year. She had 5 children, they lived in a basic tented house, migrated to where there was water and since being vaccinated her children have survived thus far. I left these people knowing I would never see them again apart from in the media-unreality-ether the practitioner tries not to drown in.

Her daughter showed me her pride and joy, a baby goat, which was her best friend. The moments we shared becomes some odd frozen tableaux that will exist on the social and media platforms without her ever seeing herself. She becomes campaign iconography; destined to either be swiped past, or she will tweak those that can donate to make a difference. How did it come to this form of needing to plead to the public to save those that are no different than ourselves, just circumstance and a lacking world system means they can never turn on a tap for hot water.