For some, it might seem as if everyone in this world lives a happy life. But it’s not so, life is not the same for everyone. For some people who live on earth, their lives might be like hell. Due to numerous reasons the world now has become a place where many innocent lives suffer.
People who suffer might not even know why they are having such a hard time. Things have come to a place where even the leaders are more concerned about power than the people in the country. This is such a place where the children live in and it might be the place where the future kids would live. Sadly the world is not the same for every child in this world. Below are some pics that show the contrasting lives of children by Uğur Gallenkuş.
This is Shaila, a 15-year-old sex worker. Due to her stepmother’s torture, she ran away from home and tried to go to her aunt’s in Dhaka, Bangladesh. “Somehow I managed to get a seat on a bus which was going to Dhaka. There was too much traffic, so my bus was stuck in one place for hours. It was getting darker and I did not know what to do. When I got off the bus, it was midnight, 12 am. I was so afraid that I asked every single female passenger to give me a shelter for one night. I was crying and did not know what to do. No one believed me. If on that day, someone would have given me a shelter for just one night, my life would not have fallen into hell,” she said. During the journey, she was kidnapped by a group and she found herself in a brothel./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: GMB Akash
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Salem Saoody, 30, is bathing his daughter Layan (L) and his niece Shaymaa 5 (R) in the only remaining piece from their damaged house, which is the bathtub, after the Israeli airstrike. 2015, Gaza./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Wissam Nassar
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A Rohingya refugee girl looks next to newly arrived refugees who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in Ukhiya on September 6, 2017. With children making up around 60 percent of the Rohingya that have fled into Bangladesh, many below 18 years old arrived into the makeshift tents highly traumatized after seeing family members killed and homes set on fire./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: K.M. Asad
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A Syrian boy sits on a destroyed tank in the Syrian town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, on March 27, 2015./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Yasin Akgül
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Newly released child soldiers wait in a line for their registration during the release ceremony in Yambio, South Sudan, on February 7, 2018. More than 300 child soldiers, including 87 girls, have been released in South Sudan’s war-torn region of Yambio under a program to help reintegrate them into society, the UN said on Februar y 7, 2018./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Stefanie Glinski
Uğur is a digital artist from Istanbul and had published a book where he shows the difference in the lives of children from around the world. Through this work, he aims to show the world how the happening in the world has affected the lives of children.
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A Syrian schoolgirl crossing through a damaged wall outside her school in the Syrian town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, on March 25, 2015. Islamic State (ISIS) fighters were driven out of Kobane on January 26 by Kurdish and allied forces./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Yasin Akgül
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Two child laborers eating their lunch during a break at the factory where they work. Dhaka, Bangladesh./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: GMB Akash
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A wounded Syrian girl receives treatment at a makeshift hospital in Kafr Batna following bombardments on the Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on February 21, 2018./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Ammar Suleiman
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Children at a brick factory in Fatullah near Dakka in Bangladesh. For every thousand bricks they carry, they earn the equivalent of 0.9 USD./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: GMB Akash
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A father with his child in the intensive care unit of the district hospital in Mora, Far North Region, Cameroon. The diseases most prevalent among African children are malaria, diarrhea, and malnutrition. February 20, 2019./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Pierre-Yves Bernard/MSF
When having a look at these images even you might think about the world we live in. There are countries where people have a good life but at the same time in some countries, people live the worst life. Hope things would change and the children would get a better place to live in. Scroll down and have a look at the images and make sure to share what you think with us.
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A Syrian boy plays on a swing in a destroyed building in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of Damascus, as Muslims celebrate the third day of the Eid al-Adha holiday on September 3, 2017./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Amer Almohibany
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Children bear the brutal cost of endless war. As 10 children from the same family were walking to school last year, they came across an unexploded mortar bomb—a common sight in Afghanistan, where war still rages between the Taliban and US-backed national forces. Not realizing what it was or the dangers it posed, the curious kids picked up the device and took it to show to an aunt. And then it exploded. Three children and the older relative were killed, and the remaining seven lost at least one limb each./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Noorullah Shirzada
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A Rohingya refugee mother and child’s exodus from Myanmar to Bangladesh. According to the UNHCR, more than 720,000 Rohingya refugees have fled from Myanmar to cross the border and reach Bangladesh./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: K.M. Asad
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She is Rosina. She is a 14-year-old sex worker in Bangladesh./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: GMB Akash
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A Rohingya refugee woman holds her son, seen after arriving with a boat to the nearest beach to the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, Shah Porir Dip Island Teknaf, Bangladesh, September 14, 2017./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: KM Asad
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Noha Abu Mesleh, 5 years old, is seen inside of her home in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Wissam Nassar
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Syrian men carrying babies make their way through the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported airstrike on the rebel-held Salihin neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo on September 11, 2016./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Ameer Alhalbi
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Palestinian children waiting to fill jerrycans and bottles with drinking water from public taps at the Dair Al Balah refugee camp in central Gaza Strip in 2014./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Wissam Nassar
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Pakistani girls attend a school attacked twice by the Taliban. Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, 2013./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Diego Ibarra Sanchez
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An orphaned boy walks past a wall with drawings depicting rocket-propelled grenade launchers in Bol, Chad, on October 13, 2018./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Marco Gualazzini
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Syrian children run with balloons past heavily damaged buildings in the neighbourhood of Jobar on the eastern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus on April 9, 2016./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Amer Almohibany
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A refugee girl observes the sunset at Dibaga Refugee Camp. Iraqis caught in Islamic State crossfire flee to refugee camps near Mosul. The conflict has left behind deep scars in the psyche of children and it has reversed more than two decades of expansion of access to education. August, Iraq, 2016./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Diego Ibarra Sanchez
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A child with dengue fever holds a doctor’s hand in Jalozai, Pakistan, 2012./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Diego Ibarra Sanchez
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In Hajjah City in Yemen, MSF (Doctors Without Borders) has been supporting the maternity ward since August 2015. This newborn already has a big story behind him: his mother, Asima, 21 years old, suffered from eclampsia from her fifth month of pregnancy. In her eighth month, she had severe headaches and swelling in her limbs. The doctors had to perform a cesarean to save her life and that of her baby. August 13, 2018./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Mohammed Almahdi/MSF
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Kanyaruchinya refugee camp in Goma in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on October 20, 2012./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Marco Gualazzini
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In 2014, MSF (Doctors Without Borders) assisted the JDJ Memorial Hospital in Monrovia with maternal and pediatric care under consideration of the Ebola outbreak. In 2015, MSF opened a Barnesville Junction Hospital in Monrovia to address gaps in pediatric care during the Ebola epidemic. The 92-bed hospital continues to provide specialized care for children coming from a large impoverished urban area with conditions such as malaria and severe acute malnutrition. It also serves as a training site for Liberian nurses, medical interns, and nurse anesthetists. February 4, 2015./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Yann Libessart/MSF
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Rohingya refugee children waiting for food at Hakimpara refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: K.M. Asad
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Smoke rises from the rebel-controlled district of Jobar in eastern Damascus following the airstrikes of Syrian regime forces on April 2, 2015./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: Ammar Sulaiman
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The hands of a Bangladeshi child laborer working in heavy industry./@ugurgallen Editorial Photo: KM Asad
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