the RED badges of courage


  • Photographer
    Carol Allen Storey
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    CASTOREY photography

In Tanzania, many primary school students are forced to wear red badges sewn on their uniform denoting their HIV/AIDS+ status. When children are asked why they wore the badges, they reply, “it is because I am sick”, AIDS is not in their vocabulary. The practice of mandating children to have red badges emblazed on their uniforms like a military epaulette is déjà vu of Hitler isolating the Jews into ghettos and forcing them to wear the yellow star of David. Human dignity was ignored then as it is today. This horrendous infringement of children’s rights is a blight on society.

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