Connecting Kids

Connecting Kids explores the notion of what it means to be ‘poor.’ The book interviews slum kids in Bangladesh, street kids musicians in Jakarta and Malaysian and Bengali kids living on the estates outside Kuala Lumpur and Tower Hamlets, London. All the kids in the book are Muslim, this is the one common denominator that unites them. The idea of the book was to find connections that transcended race and global boundaries. There is a one-hour film about their lives shot in Jakarta, Malaysia, Bangladesh and London commissioned by the British Council to accompany the book. The book contains photos and detailed pencil portraits of the kids