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I am the deck, one card at a time. Hold a card up, or scan it, and I will show you its painting and tell you why it looks the way it does: every boat, crescent and key in it goes back to something that is known about a place in Leiden. Forty-eight cards so far, from The Moon.

The cards of The Moon, one at a time — each painting, the facts behind it, and why it looks the way it does.

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Where children were once cared for, their rights are now the subject.

From Care to Rights

Where children were once cared for, their rights are now the subject.

Card 44 of 48 · The Moon · Leiden

Why this image

A small child in a blue robe holds up a key almost as tall as themselves before a heavy old wooden door, and light streams out of the keyhole. For four centuries the house was an orphanage; since 2010 it has been the Children's Rights House: where children were once cared for, the subject is now their rights 1. Defence for Children works out of the building and offers children free legal support through its Children's Rights Helpdesk 2. Not painted, but the same turn: De Bakkerij's M25 Leiden brings in 400 to 500 young people aged 12 to 17 every year, not to be helped but to help 3.

What it draws on · 3

Children's Rights House

van zorg naar recht

After 1961 the building had changing uses, until between 2007 and 2010 it was thoroughly restored — a restoration that deliberately took account of the four centuries the house had spent as an orphanage. Since 2010 it has been the Utopa-Weeshuis / Kinderrechtenhuis, an initiative of the cultural entrepreneur Loek Dijkman. Where children were once cared for, the subject is now their rights.

Sources · 3
  • Utopa-Weeshuis Kinderrechtenhuis Leiden — utopa-weeshuis.nl
  • Kentie Architecten — project Kinderrechtenhuis Leiden (restauratie 2007-2010)
  • Nederlandstalige Wikipedia — Heilige Geest- of Arme Wees- en Kinderhuis
Children's Rights House

Defence for Children

Defence for Children Nederland works out of this building and offers free legal support to children through its Children's Rights Helpdesk. Alongside that the organisation works on structural improvements to children's rights in law, regulation and policy. Its work is divided across three themes: family, migration and sexual exploitation — three very different groups of children with very different needs.

Sources · 1
  • Defence for Children Nederland — defenceforchildren.nl: Kinderrechtenhelpdesk en thema's familie, migratie, seksuele uitbuiting
Diaconal Center De Bakkerij

ouderen en jongeren

'Oma gaat op Stap' — Grandma Goes Out — pairs an older person with a buddy so the two can get out again: a walk, coffee on a terrace, the shops, a museum. M25 Leiden brings in 400 to 500 young people aged 12 to 17 every year, not to be helped but to help: at a Christmas dinner for people sleeping rough, or serving meals at the Inloophuis Psychiatrie.

Sources · 2
  • Leiden In Motion: De Diversity Walk — Stichting Güney / Turksarchief.nl
  • Diaconaal Centrum De Bakkerij — debakkerijleiden.nl/ons-werk/projecten

Shares its places with · 5

Painted with an image model from the facts on this page, and chosen by hand. City in Motion.

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