Oman onnensa seppiä
/ Those we left behind
Kuvareportaasi Opettaja-lehdessä / Story in Finnish only.
Also featured in The Truth about Finland book by Porin kulttuurisäätö, Khaos Publishing.
Portraits of former child solders & rape survivors studying in a vocational training center in Goma, DR Congo in 2016. For years, the school was supported by Finland, but in 2015 the Finnish Government cut the funding abrubtly - along with almost half of all the development cooperation.
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