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Children For Sale, Stories of Albania

by Clara OTT

Infos

Original title : Children for Sale, Stories of Albania

Director : Clara OTT

Production : Flight Movie

Duration : 52 Minutes

Year : 2004

Original version : Albanian

Subtitled version : French, English

Country : France

Synopsis

For the last ten years, thousands of Albanian children as young as four years old have been hired, sold, bought and transported into Greece for economic exploitation. In Elasan, in the heart of Albania, Namik Shehaj, the co-ordinator and co-founder of the NGO, “NPF” (Help the Children Foundation), spends his days and often his nights, fighting this practically institutionalised trafficking. He tries to prevent the neglect and disappearance of children who are “at risk,” and to rehabilitate abused children into school and their families.

Awards

  • 3rd Paris Human Rights International
  • Film Festival : best film for the Rights of the Child Award 
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