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Education
This photograph was taken in 2009 at a school that provides free education to children in Chittagong. Run by an NGO, the school provides primary schooling to children from roughly four hundred families. The road ends there for most of these children of the Sardar Bahadur Bihari Camp, as provision for further education is absent in the area. These 'paathshala' children need to compete for limited seats if they are to continue their education at secondary schools outside their community. It's a struggle for access to education that starts early for these children, yet all of them are eager to go through it.
Jashim Salam is currently a photojournalist, and had taken up photography as his profession six years ago. This honorable mention awardee says that the Celebrating Life Competition is a good initiative for young enthusiastic artists to promote themselves and enter the main stream. Salam hopes for more sustenance towards the photography medium from the organizers, as the craft is expensive.
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