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Interrupted childhood is a visual journey

Interrupted childhood is a visual journey through the daily life of refugee children, divided and living in six field camps in Bulgaria on June 17, 2015. Attracted by the idea of a less hostile life and hoping to get the documentation that would allow them to travel to other countries in Western Europe, thousands of families, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, endanger their physical integrity in the lush and rough forest that separates Turkey and Bulgaria. However, the reality they discover is different from what they had in mind. They find that Bulgaria, as well as becoming a particular kind of purgatory, is a poor and unequal country, in which many of the common people survive on pensions of 120 euros and monthly salaries of EUR350, and where minorities and disadvantaged groups live in permanent exclusion, sometimes condemned to oblivion and ostracism. As in any conflict or situation of marginality, the first to suffer are the thousands of children, who see their childhood interrupted and deprived of education, which is supposedly guaranteed as a fundamental right, regardless of their legal status, under the UN Convention on Children's Rights, the UN Convention on Refugees of 1951 and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. (Photo by Jose Antonio Sanchez/NurPhoto)

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