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Poverty stories: Hildur and Souley

Stories and News No. 1000 According to a recent report by Save The Children , End of Childhood , 168 million children are forced to work and every day more than 16,000 under 5 years die due to illnesses that would be cured with ease. In addition, the quality of life ranking for minors indicates Norway 's as best country, while the last place is for Niger , where children are constantly at risk of losing their lives. Norway and Niger , the two sides of a burning candle on one side, but this time it's the bottom, the upside-down, hidden part where we rarely look... Hildur is five years old. Souley too. Hildur is a child. Also Souley , but life is strange, isn’t it? Almost like stories, right? Hildur closes his eyes and dreams of things. Souley dreams, period. Hildur looks at his continent from the north, or above. Souley looks at the world neither from south nor below. Because his world is all there, before him, made of visions and hopes, however naïve. Hildu...