Toy Stories: photos of Toy Stories: photos of children from around the children from around the

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Gabriele GalimbertiPhotographer

from Arezzo, Italy,Born in 1977.

Toy Stories

Maudy - Kalulushi, Zambia

Maudy - Kalulushi, Zambia

Maudy was born in a hut in a small village close to Kalulushi, in Zambia. She plays in the street with the other children in the village, they all go the same school. Students ages 3 to 10 years old are in the same class. The village has no shops, restaurants or hotels, and just a few children are lucky enough to have toys. Maudy and her friends found a box full of sunglasses on the street, it is their favorite toys.

Orly - Brownsville, Texas

Orly - Brownsville, Texas

Orly was born in Browsville from a Mexican mother and American father.

He loves dinosaurs. He says: “The dinosaurs that fly over his bed protect him from ghosts”.

Alessia - Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy

Alessia - Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy

Alessia is from the country. Her family has got one of the largest farms in the city. She loves to play with animals. With her small tools she brings food to the many Chianina cows

Tangawizi Keekorok, Kenya

Tangawizi – Keekorok, Kenya

Tangwizi was born in a Maasai village in the south of Kenya in a small hut made of dung and straw. His bed is on the ground. He plays outside with all the other children of the village but every night he sleeps with his unique toy: a little pelouche monkey.

Li Yi Chen - Shenyang, China

Li Yi was born in Shenyang, a big city in the north part of China. He lives with his parents and his grandmother in a small appartment in the south suburb of the city.His favourite toys are the guns. He loves to put little boxes on the table. He loves to play with the YoYo because his favourite character of cartoon uses the YoYo

Li Yi Chen - Shenyang, China

Abel - Nopaltepec, Mexico

Abel - Nopaltepec, Mexico

Abel was born and raised in the small town of Nopaltepec, about an hour southeast of Mexico City.

In this photo he’s posing with all of his games.

He loves to race with his toy cars, and sometimes plays with them with his younger sister.

Keynor - Cahuita, Costa Rica

Keynor - Cahuita, Costa Rica

Keynor was born in Cahuita, in the caribbean coast of Costa Rica.He lives 300 meters from the beach and sometimes his mother lets him go to swim together with his older brother Deynor. Keynor’s father has a strong passion for toy cars, he maybe has more then 200 small cars. Every once his father gives him an old car and now Keynor has started his small collection

Bethsaida - Port au Prince, Hait

Bethsaida - Port au Prince, Haiti

Bethsaida was born in Port-au-Prince where she has always lived in a house with her family since, almost 2 years ago, a big earthquake distroyed it. Her parents are both deaf but fortunately she’s not. Now they live in a camp site out of the city. The camp was built from an american NGO which works with deaf, so in the camps almost 90% of the people can’t hear and talk. All the toys that Bethsaida has are donated from the NGO. She wants to be a hairdresser and loves combing her doll to practice.

Chiwa - Mchinji, Malawi

Chiwa - Mchinji, Malawi

Chiwa lives in a small hut with her mother, father and sister. They don’t have electricity and running water

In the village there are other 50 children and they play all together outside.

Chiwa has just 3 toys. Her favourite is the dinosaurus because she says that he can protect her from the dangerous animals.

Elene – Tblisi, Georgia

Elene - Tblisi, Georgia

Elene was born in the south of Georgia. She is 5 years old. She can read and write. Her favourite toys are all connected with school somehow. She loves pencils, notebooks, colour pens etc

Norden - Massa, Marocco

Norden - Massa, Marocco

Norden lives in Massa, a small village 40km south of Agadir. In his room he plays and sleeps. He spends most of his time playing with a small dog outside. the ones in the photo are all his toys.

Shaira – Mumbai, India

Shaira - Mumbai, India Radhika (6years old) was born in Mumbai.

Now she lives in Mumbai but she can speak English and Hindi (her babysitter speaks just Hindi).

Shaira likes table games. She plays with the board games with her family.

Jeronimo, 4 Colombia

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