Children from mountainous villages of Northern Caucasus invited to participate in Boell Foundation's photo contest

About 20 schoolchildren from remote villages of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia will receive photo cameras to capture their daily life and thus narrate about their childhood. Best works, to be defined by online voting on the Internet, will be presented at an exhibition in Moscow.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by the organizers of the project from the gender programme of the Moscow office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, the photo contest starts on November 9 and will be summed up early next year.

Under preliminary data, the photo contest is open for children-villagers from the Tsumada, Gunib and Charodin Districts of Dagestan; the Grozny and Gudermes Districts of Chechnya; and the Nazran District of Ingushetia.

According to Irina Kosterina, the coordinator of the gender programme of the Moscow office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Northern Caucasus was chosen because of difficult living conditions and life peculiarities of residents of mountainous villages.

The authors of the project have appealed to Russian residents to donate portable photo cameras to the campaign. Sending cameras for children is possible via activists in Moscow, Kizlyar, Grozny and Nazran.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.