BOP 2007 > Still Photography Winners > Enterprise Picture Story (large markets) 1st Place
Michal Novotny, Lidove noviny/World Picture News
Sergey Kushnir, 14 with a plastic bag filled with a glue for sniffing screams in the sewer where he lives on the outskirts of Odessa, Ukraine on Tuesday, June 6, 2006. According to Ukrainian NGO “The Way Home” there are more then 3000 homeless children living in the street of Odessa. Almost all street children use drugs. The last research carried out by “The Way Home” shows that practically all street children have STDs and many of them are HIV positive.
Denis “Moldavanchik”, 12 injects self made drug based on ephedrine known as “baltushka” to his friend while Konstantin Golubenko, 17 looks at it in abandoned house where they live in Odessa, Ukraine on Saturday, June 17, 2006. According to Ukrainian NGO “The Way Home” there are more then 3000 homeless children living in the street of Odessa. Almost all street children use drugs. The last research carried out by “The Way Home” shows that practically all street children have STDs and many of them are HIV positive.
Taras, 17, cries after Denis “Moldavanchik,” 12, was not able to find a vein for a self-made drug based on ephedrine known as “baltushka” in abandoned house where they live in Odessa, Ukraine, on Friday, June 16, 2006. According to Ukrainian NGO “The Way Home” there are more then 3000 homeless children living on the streets of Odessa. Almost all street children use drugs. The last research carried out by “The Way Home” shows that practically all street children have STDs and many of them are HIV positive.
Taras, 17 sleeps after he used self made drug based on ephedrine known as “baltushka” in a cellar in abandoned house where he lives in Odessa, Ukraine on Thursday, June 8, 2006. According to Ukrainian NGO “The Way Home” there are more then 3000 homeless children living in the street of Odessa. Almost all street children use drugs. The last research carried out by “The Way Home” shows that practically all street children have STDs and many of them are HIV positive.
Street children share food in a cellar in abandoned house where they live in Odessa, Ukraine on Tuesday, June 13, 2006. According to Ukrainian NGO “The Way Home” there are more then 3000 homeless children living in the street of Odessa. Almost all street children use drugs. The last research carried out by “The Way Home” shows that practically all street children have STDs and many of them are HIV positive.
Konstantin Golubenko, 17 cries because he can not find a vein for self made drug based on ephedrine known as “baltushka” in abandoned house where he lives in Odessa, Ukraine on Saturday, June 17, 2006. According to Ukrainian NGO “The Way Home” there are more then 3000 homeless children living in the street of Odessa. Almost all street children use drugs. The last research carried out by “The Way Home” shows that practically all street children have STDs and many of them are HIV positive.
Slavik Berestov, 11 is sniffing a glue from a plastic bag in a truck where he lives with his brother in Odessa, Ukraine on Saturday, June 10, 2006. According to Ukrainian NGO “The Way Home” there are more then 3000 homeless children living in the street of Odessa. Almost all street children use drugs. The last research carried out by “The Way Home” shows that practically all street children have STDs and many of them are HIV positive.
Denis Klimenko, 15 (right) smokes a cigarette and his friend Mikhail Nezhenskiy, 15 is watching him in the sewer where they live on the outskirts of Odessa, Ukraine, on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2006. According to Ukrainian NGO “The Way Home” there are more then 3000 homeless children living on the streets of Odessa. Almost all street children use drugs. The last research carried out by “The Way Home” shows that practically all street children have STDs and many of them are HIV positive.
Slavik Berestov, 12 looks out of the sewer where he lives on the outskirts of Odessa, Ukraine, on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006. According to Ukrainian NGO “The Way Home” there are more then 3000 homeless children living on the streets of Odessa. Almost all street children use drugs. The last research carried out by “The Way Home” shows that practically all street children have STDs and many of them are HIV positive.
Slavik Berestov, 12 cries and his brother Vitaliy Berestov, 14 sniffs a glue from a plastic bag in the sewer where they live on the outskirts of Odessa, Ukraine, on Wednesday, December 20, 2006. According to Ukrainian NGO “The Way Home” there are more then 3000 homeless children living on the streets of Odessa. Almost all street children use drugs. The last research carried out by “The Way Home” shows that practically all street children have STDs and many of them are HIV positive.
Miroslav Tolpiza, 16 holds an injection filled with self made drug based on ephedrine known as “baltushka” to in abandoned house where he lives in Odessa, Ukraine on Saturday, June 17, 2006. According to Ukrainian NGO “The Way Home” there are more then 3000 homeless children living in the street of Odessa. Almost all street children use drugs. The last research carried out by “The Way Home” shows that practically all street children have STDs and many of them are HIV positive.
Leonid Trondofil, 14 (left) and Sergey Kushnir, 14 travel in a tramway in Odessa, Ukraine, on Friday, Dec. 15, 2006. According to Ukrainian NGO “The Way Home” there are more then 3000 homeless children living on the streets of Odessa. Almost all street children use drugs. The last research carried out by “The Way Home” shows that practically all street children have STDs and many of them are HIV positive.
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