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Roops reports from the Visamo Earthquake Relief Camp

The problem

This will be a slightly different project than approaching to the school /classroom kids. The problem is - this is not a school but a rehabilitation camp. Meaning the kids will go away as soon as they find the homes. The camp is there for two months as such. I noticed that before two days, there were 1000 people in the camp, and today there were hardly 150 families.

India, February 2001

Some of the kids come at night time only, and leave in the morning, with their family for the repair work of their damaged homes or shifting to a new place. The totally orphaned kids are sent to the orphanage homes/ or adopted by good people. Yes a lot of people have come forward to adopt the children -that's a very nice gesture of this society, I believe.

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Roopal Mehta, Ahmedabad, India
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A scene of the 400 children who were buried alive on Republic day in Anjar, India, as visualized by 13-year-old student at Ahmedabad's CN Vidyalaya
Art created by the kids
Newspaper photos from the Visamo Earthquake Relief Camp
Photos from the earthquake zone
Exhibition in Arendal Library, Norway, May 2001
Joining Who-Am-I? - The process: The kids in Who-Am-I? | Roopal reporting

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