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Syria: the father and the child of the symbolic photo in Italy for new life

2022-01-20T13:14:20.406Z


They will arrive tomorrow evening, then a future in Siena (ANSA) Munzir and Mustafa, Syrian father and son without limbs due to the war and protagonists of the shot 'Hardship of Life' , which went around the world becoming a symbolic image of the Syrian drama, will arrive tomorrow evening in Italy to start a new life in Siena and be treated at the Vigorso di Budrio prosthesis center (Bologna). The announcement comes from the Siena International Photo Awards, w


Munzir and Mustafa, Syrian father and son without limbs due to the war and protagonists of the shot 'Hardship of Life'

, which went around the world becoming a symbolic image of the Syrian drama, will arrive tomorrow evening in Italy to start a new life in Siena and be treated at the Vigorso di Budrio prosthesis center (Bologna).

The announcement comes from the Siena International Photo Awards, which awarded the shot that portrays Munzir and Mustafa by Turkish photographer Mehmet Aslan as the overall winner.

The festival has launched a fundraiser to help father and son and other innocent victims of the conflict in Syria.

The fundraiser, which also supports a rehabilitation and aid program for people who have undergone amputations, has reached over 100,000 euros through the Gofundme platform.

"Munzir and Mustafa will arrive tomorrow evening in Italy, in Ciampino, from Turkey - explained the founder and artistic director of the photographic award Luca Venturi -, then they will go to live in a Caritas house in Siena made available by the Archdiocese and will be treated at the prosthesis center in Vigorso di Budrio ".

For Venturi "the communicative power of that photo has been transformed into a real support for the family thanks to the fundraising we launched,

which many people have joined. As a photo contest, we did not consider ourselves the right subjects to do this, but in the end it was the right choice because this miracle was made possible ". 

Source: ansa

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