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  • Marvin, 20 years old, former gangster, teaching a life orientation lesson to young neglected youngsters in the School of Hope in Athlone, Cape Town, RSA, where troubled young kids at risk are getting education (run by Thembalitsha.org.za a local NGO). Marvin was a hit-man, working also for different gang such as 'The Americans' and the 'Junior Mafia' between the age of 15 and 19. He grow up in the mainly 'coloured' area of  Heideveld, where unemployment is rife and gangs are flourishing. He was also addicted by crystal meth (aka 'tik'), a dangerous chemical drug very common in South Africa's poorest neighbourhoods. Thanks to his family, after having been to reformatory, he was helped to get out of the gangs and to join a free academy for skills development aimed at empowering troubled youths through training and discipline, called Chrysalis (www.chrysalisacademy.org.za). He finished a three month course there and he is now about to  start working in the tourism industry; he know the wrongs has done and he does not want to go back to that life anymore. Chrysalis aim at reducing the levels of crime and violence in the Western Cape by transforming 'youth at risk' into strong, positive community leaders of the future through intensive continuous training. ?After I left the gang I was working for in the Woodstock area of Cape Town I have made myself some enemies; I cannot go back there anymore because someone has still anger left for me?I don?t want that life anymore, I want to live peacefully and fulfil my aspirations, you see: it is a matter of having little short-term goals, once you have achieved one you go onto the next, and so on. Always think you can do it, don?t give up, go for it again. I was running in dark corners, there was no way out, I did not have a goal, I had no dreams. You need to believe that you are worthwhile. Life is hard, it depends on you on how you want to make your life. Make everyday your day."
    Marvin_Gangster_Redemption_02.JPG
  • Marvin, 20 years old, former gangster, teaching a life orientation lesson to young neglected youngsters in the School of Hope in Athlone, Cape Town, RSA, where troubled young kids at risk are getting education (run by Thembalitsha.org.za a local NGO). Marvin was a hit-man, working also for different gang such as 'The Americans' and the 'Junior Mafia' between the age of 15 and 19. He grow up in the mainly 'coloured' area of  Heideveld, where unemployment is rife and gangs are flourishing. He was also addicted by crystal meth (aka 'tik'), a dangerous chemical drug very common in South Africa's poorest neighbourhoods. Thanks to his family, after having been to reformatory, he was helped to get out of the gangs and to join a free academy for skills development aimed at empowering troubled youths through training and discipline, called Chrysalis (www.chrysalisacademy.org.za). He finished a three month course there and he is now about to  start working in the tourism industry; he know the wrongs has done and he does not want to go back to that life anymore. Chrysalis aim at reducing the levels of crime and violence in the Western Cape by transforming 'youth at risk' into strong, positive community leaders of the future through intensive continuous training. ?After I left the gang I was working for in the Woodstock area of Cape Town I have made myself some enemies; I cannot go back there anymore because someone has still anger left for me?I don?t want that life anymore, I want to live peacefully and fulfil my aspirations, you see: it is a matter of having little short-term goals, once you have achieved one you go onto the next, and so on. Always think you can do it, don?t give up, go for it again. I was running in dark corners, there was no way out, I did not have a goal, I had no dreams. You need to believe that you are worthwhile. Life is hard, it depends on you on how you want to make your life. Make everyday your day."
    Marvin_Gangster_Redemption_16.jpg
  • Anita Suresh Kasbe,  41, the Unicef community facilitator is teaching the girls attending the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_07.JPG
  • Anita Suresh Kasbe,  41, (left) the Unicef community facilitator is teaching to the girls - and others - attending the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_26.JPG
  • Afreen, 17, a member of the Red Brigades, is performing during a street play promoting awareness about women’s condition in India, on the streets of Madiyaw colony, Lucknow District, Uttar Pradesh. The Red Brigades are a group of young women led by Usha, 25, who after an attempted rape began talking about abuse with her students, aged around 14 to 18 years old. Usha founded the Red Brigades in November 2010. They perform in self-written plays on gender equality around villages and cities, take part to protests and also teach self-defence classes. Most of the girls in the group have experienced some kind of abuse in their past. They sing words such as "all sisters are breaking all the rules, boundaries, come to bring a new world, change will come," and "for how long do we have to go through this?" and "the country has freedom, but girls do not have freedom."
    Sexual_Violence_India_10.JPG
  • Members of the Red Brigades are performing in a street play promoting awareness about women’s condition in India, on the streets of Madiyaw colony, Lucknow District, Uttar Pradesh. The Red Brigades are a group of young women led by Usha, 25, who after an attempted rape began talking about abuse with her students, aged around 14 to 18 years old. Usha founded the Red Brigades in November 2010. They act in self-written plays on gender equality around villages and cities, take part to protests and also teach self-defence classes. Most of the girls in the group have experienced some kind of abuse in their past. They sing words such as "all sisters are breaking all the rules, boundaries, come to bring a new world, change will come," and "for how long do we have to go through this?" and "the country has freedom, but girls do not have freedom."
    Sexual_Violence_India_07.JPG
  • Members of the Red Brigades are showing their martial arts skills on the streets of Madiyaw colony, Lucknow District, Uttar Pradesh. The Red Brigades are a group of young women led by Usha, 25, who after an attempted rape began talking about abuse with her students, aged around 14 to 18 years old. Usha founded the Red Brigades in November 2010. They act in self-written plays on gender equality around villages and cities, take part to protests and also teach self-defence classes. Most of the girls in the group have experienced some kind of abuse in their past. They sing words such as "all sisters are breaking all the rules, boundaries, come to bring a new world, change will come," and "for how long do we have to go through this?" and "the country has freedom, but girls do not have freedom."
    Sexual_Violence_India_38.JPG
  • Members of the Red Brigades are showing their martial arts skills on the streets of Madiyaw colony, Lucknow District, Uttar Pradesh. The Red Brigades are a group of young women led by Usha, 25, who after an attempted rape began talking about abuse with her students, aged around 14 to 18 years old. Usha founded the Red Brigades in November 2010. They act in self-written plays on gender equality around villages and cities, take part to protests and also teach self-defence classes. Most of the girls in the group have experienced some kind of abuse in their past. They sing words such as "all sisters are breaking all the rules, boundaries, come to bring a new world, change will come," and "for how long do we have to go through this?" and "the country has freedom, but girls do not have freedom."
    Sexual_Violence_India_24.JPG
  • Afreen, 17, a member of the Red Brigades, is crying during a street play promoting awareness about women’s condition in India, on the streets of Madiyaw colony, Lucknow District, Uttar Pradesh. The Red Brigades are a group of young women led by Usha, 25, who after an attempted rape began talking about abuse with her students, aged around 14 to 18 years old. Usha founded the Red Brigades in November 2010. They perform in self-written plays on gender equality around villages and cities, take part to protests and also teach self-defence classes. Most of the girls in the group have experienced some kind of abuse in their past. They sing words such as "all sisters are breaking all the rules, boundaries, come to bring a new world, change will come," and "for how long do we have to go through this?" and "the country has freedom, but girls do not have freedom."
    Sexual_Violence_India_05.JPG
  • Usha, 25, (left) and two other members of the Red Brigades are sitting inside Usha’s home in Madiyaw colony, Lucknow District, Uttar Pradesh. The Red Brigades are a group of young women led by Usha, 25, who after an attempted rape began talking about abuse with her students, aged around 14 to 18 years old. Usha founded the Red Brigades in November 2010. They act in self-written plays on gender equality around villages and cities, take part to protests and also teach self-defence classes. Most of the girls in the group have experienced some kind of abuse in their past. They sing words such as "all sisters are breaking all the rules, boundaries, come to bring a new world, change will come," and "for how long do we have to go through this?" and "the country has freedom, but girls do not have freedom."
    Sexual_Violence_India_12.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (centre) is tidying up some clothes inside her house, before leaving to participate at the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family. Her eldest sister, Minal, 20, (right) came to visit her family, while their father Mahesh Kashinath Pandit, 42, (left) is talking to her.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_21.JPG
  • Minakshee, 17, (right) one of Mahesh Pandit's older sisters is also a Unicef community facilitator, and she is now helping to run the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_28.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, is walking around her modest home, before leaving to participate at the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_20.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (centre) is tidying up some clothes inside her house, before leaving to participate at the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family. Her eldest sister, Minal, 20, (right) came to visit her family, while their father Mahesh Kashinath Pandit, 42, (left) is talking to her.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_12.JPG
  • Anita Suresh Kasbe,  41, (centre) the Unicef community facilitator is dancing and singing with the girls attending the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Here, Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (left) she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_22.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (centre) is participating to the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_02.JPG
  • A young girl and other women are walking near a fruit vendor on the roads of Madiyaw colony, Lucknow District, Uttar Pradesh.
    Sexual_Violence_India_29.JPG
  • Boys are playing arcade video games on the roads of Madiyaw colony, Lucknow District, Uttar Pradesh.
    Sexual_Violence_India_23.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (right - next to the door) is participating to the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_25.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (centre) is participating to the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_24.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (centre) is pouring some rice to be cooked for lunch before leaving to participate at the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_15.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (centre) is washing dishes in front of her home, before leaving to participate at the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_14.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (centre) is grabbing a pot to begin cooking lunch for her father, before leaving to participate at the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_13.JPG
  • Minakshee, 17, (right) one of Mahesh Pandit's older sisters is also a Unicef community facilitator and is helping to run the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_11.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (centre) is participating to the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_10.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (centre) is walking towards the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_09.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (left) is participating to the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_06.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (centre) is sitting insider her home tiding her hair, just before attending the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_04.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (centre-right) is participating to the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_27.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, is completing her school homework before leaving to participate at the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_19.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, is completing her school homework before leaving to participate at the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_18.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (left) is participating to the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_01.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (centre) is participating to the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family. The adolescents are playing a game of trust, confidence and memory, by walking over the bottles - first seeing normally - and then using a blindfold to stimulate the other senses.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_23.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (right) is peeling potatoes inside her house, before leaving to participate at the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family. Her father, Mahesh Kashinath Pandit, 42, (left) is helping her with the food preparation.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_17.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (centre) is participating to the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family. The adolescents are playing a game of trust, confidence and memory, by walking over the bottles - first seeing normally - and then using a blindfold to stimulate the other senses.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_08.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (centre) is participating to the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family. The adolescents are playing a game of trust, confidence and memory, by walking over the bottles - first seeing normally - and then using a blindfold to stimulate the other senses.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_03.JPG
  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (left) is completing her school homework before leaving to participate at the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_16.JPG
  • Anita Suresh Kasbe,  41, the Unicef community facilitator is greeting the girls attending the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Here, Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (behind the facilitator) she resides with her family.
    UNICEF_Project_India_Mumbai_2013_05.JPG
  • A guard (left) is teaching car-repairing and basic mechanics to attentive inmate inside the luxurious Halden Fengsel, (prison) near Oslo, Norway.
    Halden_Luxury_Prison_Norway_010.JPG
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