During today’s visit to the transport hub, children peered out from behind the curtains of coaches, destined for new countries and hopefully safe homes, while the son of a volunteer entertained himself in the driver’s seat. Before the next group seeking to board the humanitarian buses reach the loading area, it's a bitter twist that they must wait beneath a sign advertising the new homes of tomorrow in Lviv.
I now know it takes around three days to make a sniper's ghillie suit.
Later in the day, the 3.5m tall living puppet called "Little Amal" visited one of the new "Container Town" housing facilities. I've photographed Amal a number of times during the culmination of its previous journey from Turkey to the UK. However, this time was the first time that I'd seen her presented to the people that she is intended to symbolise; refugee children. Inflicting the mental and physical damage of war on a person before they've grown old enough to begin to understand why this is happening is so fundamentally unfair. Thanks to this project, it's pleasing to end my short time in Ukraine to the sound of children's laughter.
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