Children at Play

Tanks become toys in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 1994

No matter how dire the situation, how dangerous the environment, children need to play.

Children play on an anti-aircraft gun near Beirut, Lebanon, 1982

Whether it is splashing in puddles or climbing on abandoned tanks, their world of make believe is almost as important as food and shelter.

Boys playing football in flooded pastures, Bangladesh, 1983

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” - Heraclitus

Children play next to an abandoned freighter, Sitwe, Myanmar (Burma), 1995

Two children play a game by a road, India, 1993

Young Cambodian boys play in the ruins of Preah Khan near Angkor Wat, Cambodia, 1999

Young monks at play, Burma, 1994

Yemen, 1997

“Child’s play is the exultation of the possible.” – M. Buber

Children of War

Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone.

“It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

AFGHN-10083, Afghanistan, 1992

Kabul, Afghanistan, 1993

Luzon, Philippines, 1986

Beirut, Lebanon, 1982

Kuwait City, 1991

A landmine victim, Pul i Khumri, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, 1992

Shepherd boy at Al Ahmadi, Kuwait, 1991

Kandahar, Afghanistan, 1985

Child with Dutch Soldier, Afghanistan, 2002

Tamil Tigers recruits during training, west of Batticola, Sri Lanka, 199

Kabul, Afghanistan, 1992