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I Am Alive
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Here you'll find the latest information on the book "I Am Alive" including press releases, images and video material. We are happy to arrange interviews with the editor, Martina Dase, the photographer, Dominic Nahr, or selected protagonists and guest authors. For questions or a book copy, please contact cosima.trittel@savethechildren.de

Weltkarte des Projekts 'Ich lebe - Wie Kinder Kriege überstehen'

Press Releases

Visuals for Media

Selected Coverage

In November 2020, Save the Children and German Development Minister Dr. Gerd Müller, presented the illustrated book "I Am Alive" at a digital press conference. The photographer Dominic Nahr, the survivors Vichuta Ly from Cambodia and José from Colombia, as well as British war reporter Jon Swain – who, like the host, is also a guest author of the book – joined the event.

Public interest in the stories of children at war is reflected in the consistently positive reviews of "I Am Alive" – from SPIEGEL and Focus Online to the NZZ, the TV culture magazines ttt (ARD), kulturzeit (3sat), twist (arte) and Arts and Culture (Deutsche Welle), and the Dithmarscher Landeszeitung.

Here is a selection of the coverage of the centenary book and project.

deutsche welle berichterstattung ueber ich lebe

Deutsche Welle Arts and Culture

20.11.2020 Every year since 1959 November the 20th has been world children’s day. It was created by the United Nations in conjunction with the Declaration of Children’s Rights first introduced on that day in 1959. The global charity Save the Children, itself celebrating 100 years since it was founded, has published a book featuring stories of children who grew up in warzones – and were helped by Save the Children. Mehr...

berichterstattung im stern ueber den bildband

Stern

21.22.2019: Seit 100 Jahren schützt „Save the Children“ Kinder in Kriegsgebieten vor Hunger und Gewalt. Zum Jubiläum erzählen sechs Menschen, wie die Hilfsorganisation ihr Leben veränderte. Mehr...
 

berichterstattung bei ttt in der ard ueber dominic nahr

ttt - titel, thesen, temperamente ∙ Das Erste

14.02.2021: Sie sind die ersten Opfer von Kriegen: Kinder. Im Auftrag der Hilfsorganisation "Save the Children" hat der Fotograf Dominic Nahr zehn Menschen getroffen, die als Kinder einen Krieg erleben mussten. Mehr...
 

neue zuercher zeitung ueber das buch ich lebe

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

10.12.2020: Weltweit leben 426 Millionen Kinder in Konfliktregionen. Ein neues Buch porträtiert Menschen, die als Kind ebenfalls Hunger und Gewalt erlebt haben, und lässt sie erzählen, was das mit ihnen gemacht hat. Mehr...

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Dominic Nahr

 

Dominic Nahr

The award­winning Swiss photographer Dominic Nahr grew up in Hong Kong and lived in East Africa for many years. As an ambassador for Leica, he has been reporting on the world’s trouble spots for over ten years. His coverage of the civil war in southern Sudan, on rebels and child soldiers in the Congo, and on terrorism in Somalia has been published in international magazines such as Time, The New Yorker, DIE ZEIT, and stern. Dominic Nahr studies people with deep empathy; his visual language goes beyond documenting atrocities and catastrophes. In 2017, he founded the photo agency MAPS with colleagues. In the same year, he photographed Save the Children’s relief mission in drought-stricken Somalia for National Geographic and DER SPIEGEL. Dominic Nahr has been working on the Save the Children project "I Am Alive" since 2018. The organisation exhibited his photographs in 2019 at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, and to representatives of the EU Commission in Brussels.

martina dase ist herausgeberin des buchprojekts ich lebe

 

Martina Dase

‘The thing about people is, we are all interested in the lives of others. When you relate, that’s when you become curious.’ Martina Dase, a journalist, filmmaker, and expert on strategic communication, knows how important visual media are in connecting humanitarian stories with new audiences. As an award-winning television journalist for the broadcasters ARD, arte, and 3sat, Martina developed her own unique cinematic style, and the hallmarks of her artistic stamp are a common thread running through each page of this book. Martina’s desire to not just depict reality, but to help shape a better world led her to non-governmental organisations. She has designed multiple strategic campaigns and flagship projects, including for Greenpeace and Welthungerhilfe, before joining Save the Children Germany in 2016 to lead the communications team. There, she has worked closely with leading German media outlets, covering the humanitarian disaster on location in Somalia, hosted the anniversary celebration to mark one hundred years of Save the Children’s work, and is spearheading debate on the future of development aid. Martina has retained a keen focus on Africa, and her ability to show the humans behind the headlines has shaped all her work.

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