THOMOND Park is host to an open reception to mark a photo-documentary revealing the harsh life in developing world cities for young girls drawn to them in search of a living. This exhibition of photography, City Girls is currently in Mary Immaculate College’s library and moves to the President’s Suite of the Limerick stadium on Thursday December 2 for the 7pm launch.
Both at MIC on South Circular Road and at Thomond Park, we are invited to view this travelling narrative, sponsored in Limerick by Thomond Park Events and Masterchefs.
City Girls is a series of “beautiful but thought provoking images, many of them captured by children themselves, that will focus on the lives of young girls in big cities”.
The travelling show has been put together by child-centred development organisation Plan Ireland which has over 8,500 sponsors. Nobel Laureate John Hume is patron.
Plan Ireland CEO is David Dalton, a Raheen man with many years experience of working in the developing world: “Cities and cyberspace offer girls both opportunity and danger. The promise of a better life in a big city is often nothing more than that and in reality many girls suffer at the hands of those looking to exploit them. Through our exhibition we hope to highlight these issues, but also show the resilience, potential and possibility of girls in the developing world”.
The fortnight long exhibition runs parallel with Limerick school visits by Plan Ireland’s Mike Mansfield, talking to transition year students about these experiences. Mike is giving local children a glimpse of the life of their counterparts in cities like Lima in Peru, Dhaka in Bangladesh and Cairo in Egypt.
