Children of the World winners
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1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Title: Lost Childhood One of the most important part of a child's life is being loved and nurtured in a family. Childhood is incomplete, even damaged, without it. But for some families, providing for their children and nurturing them with the necessary comfort is a luxury. They simply do not have the bare minimum. They end up giving their children into child labour so that they can earn money to survive. Ultimately, they become a little more than an additional - and much needed - source of income. Regardless of reasons, this essentially turns these children into day-labourers and inevitably contributes to a brutal loss of innocence. Photos show children at a ship propeller making factory at Sadarghat dockyard in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, working without proper safety equipment and in an overall unsafe condition. They say their work starts at 7 in the morning and goes on until 7 in the evening. 12 hours of hard physical labour earns them $2.50 dollar a day. They have no weekly vacation.
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2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Title: Child worker resting after hard work The photograph was taken in a municipal dumping ground in Howrah, India. The child worker is working in a plastic sorting godown on the street. The godown owners purchase these plastic wastes from scavengers / collectors. They employ children for sorting these wastes in godowns inside or outside on the street, and sell the sorted products, plastics / metal / fabrics/ papers, everything that can be re-cycled to the recycling factories. In this photograph we see a child worker taking rest after hard work. I took this photograph to show the poor conditions of these downtrodden child workers of India.
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3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Title: Alms line
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Honorable Mention Title: Untitled #4 Evening bath in Ghana, West Africa
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Honorable Mention Title: Father and son AlmerÃa - Spain
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Honorable Mention Title: Youth in Kashgar's Old Town In the ancient alleyways of Kashgar's Old Town, children still play in a city that once hosted so many Silk Road traders.
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Honorable Mention Title: Childs play
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Honorable Mention Title: Haircutting Ritual for Traditional Festival in Malaysia A child braves the heat to get his hair cut while he prepares to show his devotion at Thaipusam in Malaysia. I have met with devotees in several countries researching this festival over the years.
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Honorable Mention Title: Our garden fence Papua New Guinea
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Honorable Mention Title: Siblings Children being children, sofas aren't for sitting.
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Honorable Mention Title: Looking for...something small people in big world, waiting to disvover whatever the binocular might show them
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Honorable Mention Title: Toxic Fumes Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Honorable Mention Title: My playground Togo / Benin
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Honorable Mention Title: Happy Childhood Children are having their fun time at rural area of Malaysia
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Honorable Mention Title: The last light of summer September 2022
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Honorable Mention Title: Children of Mundari, South Sudan In the Mundari cattle camps, kids are doing most of the daily work. Kids collect the fresh cow dung and put it into piles which are then set on fire. Those fire are useful as they repel the (extremely
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Honorable Mention Title: No school today Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Honorable Mention Title: Alice #5
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Honorable Mention Title: The Girl in the Crowd Taken during the Black Lives Matter protests which took place in Bristol 2020.
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