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With big eyes eight-year-old Tanans looks around. The new school year has just begun. Tanans is Congolese, but he grew up in a Refugee Welcome Zone in Uganda. Together with his family he has travelled to the Netherlands as an ‘invited refugee’. For the first time he lives in a beautiful house, tries to find his balance on a bike, and learns Dutch. But above all, he tries to make sense of this strange, new world.

Working with Eefje was so much fun, but also incredibly insightful. She is someone who is able to combine a naïve, almost childlike look of the world, with the knowledge of someone who has maybe seen too much. But even in the face of terrible things, she tries to create hopeful stories, just like this one.