NINA KUZMANOVIC

Special prize “SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES”

Forgetting is impossible, but from pain you can learn to move forward with a different outlook on the world. Because you are never really alone.

Nina Kuzmanovic, she experienced this on her own skin. And he remembers it every time he takes that past out of the drawer that looks like a book he has already read. Nina is just over twenty years old. But she knows what it means to have to live with violence at home, see her mother annihilated in body and spirit, wake up in the morning with her heart in her throat and fall asleep thanking her for surviving another day.

He knows what it means to grow up ahead of time and continually look for ways to live the normality that many of his peers would take for granted. But above all, he knows what it means to be without references. When the fear you deal with on a daily basis is underestimated by the same system that is supposed to protect you.

The serenity, understanding and trust Nina and her family, on the other hand, met for the first time at the Sos Village, a place that marked the beginning of their rebirth after an odyssey that lasted too long.

A scary journey along which, never once, Nina has let hatred overwhelm her or shape her thinking. So Nina live, love, study, and learn all the languages ​​of the world. Because the world is finally all yours!

Text by Elettra Fiorini