Breaking the Stigma - Video by Beyond the Years Project

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THE FACES OF HOPE

As a part of "Beyond the Years" Project, this journalistic video feature was a part of a series of works created to shed light on ageism (age stigma) against elderly individuals in Egypt. The video portrays interviewed individuals (between 60 to 70 years old) that hold an active lifestyle, and have broken the stigma society typically puts on their age group, especially in Egypt, usually seeing them as incompetent or challenged individuals (mentally and physically), and therefore excluding them from society.

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