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From November 19 through April 2010, Faces of Freedom, a photography exhibition documenting efforts to end child labor in South Asia’s carpet industry, will be on display at Miami International Airport’s South Terminal Art Gallery. The collection of photos, developed by the Washington, DC-based organization RugMark USA together with award-winning photographer U. Roberto Romano, takes you behind the looms and inside the lives of children illegally employed to weave carpets in India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
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| One of the photographs that will be on display at the Faces of Freedom exhibition in the Miami International Airport’s South Terminal Art Gallery. |
The Miami exhibition also features a breathtaking selection of child labor-free Himalayan wool carpets by Odegard, a national leader in contemporary carpet design. RugMark is an international nonprofit organization working to end child labor and offer educational opportunities to children in South Asia. The U.S. Fund for UNICEF and UNICEF have supported RugMark’s child rescue and rehabilitation work since 1994.
In conjunction with the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, the exhibit’s national co-sponsor, Faces of Freedom is being hosted in venues across North America to herald the progress made in the fight against child labor worldwide. Venues include the Russell Senate Rotunda and the World Bank in Washington, DC; UNICEF Headquarters in New York; the Minneapolis Children’s Theater; and the San Francisco Design Center. To learn more, visit FacesofFreedom.GoodWeave.org.
Every day, 24,000 children die from preventable causes, simply because they don’t have access to clean water, immunizations, proper nutrition, or protection from exploitation and during emergencies. The lifesaving work of UNICEF and likeminded organizations such as RugMark are bringing us closer and closer to the day when the number of children dying from preventable causes is finally zero.
