Because I am a girl

Being a girl should not mean that you are worthless. 

Zainabu Musa is 14 years old and one of those lucky refugee girls who can read and write. She is a child but already knows how important is that girls can go to school to get a better future and perhaps even be able to change the attitudes of their community. 

The Finnish photographer Meeri Koutaniemi visited the refugee camp Tabareybarey in Niger together with children's development organisation Plan which is celebrating it´s 75th birthday this year.  

With her pictures and texts Meeri has given the voice and faces to five girls from Mali living there - teenager girls in child marriages, suffering early childbirths, raped and abandoned. 

You can now see Zainabu, Fatumata, Balkissa, Sarafau and Asa and read their stories in the exhibition in Sanomatalo Helsinki. 

And decide how you might be able to help children in need all around the world.

 

 

The exhibition Kaukana kotoa: Tabareybareyn tytöt (Far away from home: Girls of Tabareybarey) is open until October 27th in Sanomatalo, Töölönlahdenkatu 2, Helsinki.
Open Mon-Fri 7am-10 pm, Sat-Sun 9am-10pm.

www.plan.fi/koska-olen-tytto

www.plan.org