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CPOY 71 Portfolio Silver, Runner-Up College Photographer of the Year: Janus Engel Rasmussen

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October 13, 2015

Zagari, 30 years old from Nangarhar in Afghanistan, fled from her home 4 months ago to Kabul, when militants entered her family home and demanded their assets - her carpets, her jewellery, their livestock, everything. "All we could take was our clothes and a few blankets". She and her family now live in a tiny, half built mud home with little more than a kettle, a couple of blankets, and a tarpaulin for the ground, in Kabul's sprawling informal settlements (slums). Some of her children earn money for the family by collecting trash for recycling. Her children are constantly ill from the poor sanitation, and only get to go to school for one hour each day. "Usually we only get to eat bread each day, only sometimes do we get something nutritious like vegetables" ... "All I think about is how I can protect my children.”

Janus Engel Rasmussen / Danish School of Journalism
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