Children in emergency aid (Daily Life and Environment 2011, by Jacek Pulawski)

Children in emergency aid

Amnesty International Schweiz - "In Action"

Photo / Daily Life and Environment

2011

Jacek Pulawski

In Switzerland, people whose asylum applications have been rejected receive only emergency aid. A hopeless situation: Families with children are housed in civil defense shelters and receive between six and twelve francs per day to survive. Children, most of whom were born in Switzerland, experience this particularly badly. Normal educational development is threatened by a very strict integration policy. According to the Federal Office for Migration, over 1,200 children and young people lived in emergency aid centers in 2009. How many of these were born in Switzerland is unknown.

Author

Jacek Pulawski / Swiss Press Award

Jacek Pulawski

fotoreporter, Chiasso, 1978

Before starting his career as a photographer in 2007, Jacek Pulawski was employed by a US Corporation and worked in a wide range of countries as a business translator and as an internal auditor for SOX Compliance programs. During that time he became interested in photography, which he carried out in his free time deciding to attend a National Geographic workshop in photojournalism. As a self-taught photographer he began to document the major social difficulties in the canton Ticino, the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, with the purpose of providing a fresh visual documentation of untreated problems caused by the illegal Immigration. Following this work, the depth and wealth of his photographic endeavors were recognised and he was awarded the Espace Media Prize Premier Award at the Swiss Press Photo. A year later he received the EWZ-selection Premier Award at the Swiss Photo Award. As a documentary photographer he focusing on in-depth visual studies about human conditions.

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Children in emergency aid (Daily Life and Environment 2011, by Jacek Pulawski) - Swiss Press Award