Anna is 14 years old and lives in Fara Gera d’Adda. She is one of the winners of the literary competition organized by the Order of Psychologists of Lombardy in collaboration with the regional guarantor of childhood and adolescence. In his text, I wish I’d never been born, COVID comes to life as a ghost that cannot understand why death and disease follow it in its travels.
“I was air, invisible. I wandered around the city for a while but couldn’t figure out where you were. I tried to touch people, to get close to them, but they didn’t see me. I went through their bodies like a ghost. […]. I have done nothing but leave pain, loneliness and death behind me. Let me introduce myself, my name is COVID-19 and I’m a monster».
COVID-19 interrupted life as it knew it: no taekwondo, no guitar, no strings were found. Even the friendships have been severely tested. «We separated and now we feel different» say Anna, Clarissa and Chiara.
Its history represents Italy in the project Generation Covid: Respond. Recover. Reimagine. which collects images and stories from six countries around the world under the impetus of Unicef and Magnum Photos. Six photographers told in six countries, Brazil, Greece, Italy, Turkey, the United States and South Africa, how the lives of children and young people have been affected by Covid-19.
«The photos and essays reveal faces, voices, humanity, solidarity, hopes and resilience in the face of challenges. They are stories of communities coming together. These stories reinforce ours belief that childhood and adolescence must be at the center of our global response to COVID-19»Explains Gabriella Scaduto, Secretary of the Lombard Psychologists’ Order and Coordinator of the Human Rights Council.
“Many children have been afraid, they have felt lonely, anxious and worried about their future. We have to get out of this pandemic with a better approach to the mental health of children and adolescents and we must begin by giving this issue the attention it deserves ”, adds Carmela Pace, President of UNICEF Italy.
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