Having studied the photo in Barnardo's advertisement, it clearly illustrates a child about to jump off the top of a building, because life isn't worth holding onto anymore.

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09/05/2007                                                                                                                                      David Pollon

“Giving Children Back Their Future”

Analysis on the barnardo’s advertisement

Having studied the photo in Barnardo’s advertisement, it clearly illustrates a child about to jump off the top of a building, because life isn’t worth holding onto anymore.

        If you study the caption below the photo, it says he was made to feel worthless as a child. This would have obviously emotionally scarred him and psychologically drove him to this.

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        Barnardo’s makes it clear it is futures like these which they aim to save. They do this by raising money by the public and with this aid, help thousands of children and their families, at home, school and the local community.

        In order to raise this financial aid in the first place, Barnardo’s very cleverly creates advertisements such as this which all have an underlying message. This one in particular has a little caption next to the child on the edge of the building saying ‘Martin Ward/Age 29’.

        This will come as a big shock to the public having ...

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