Jorit's new mural gives a face to the child with the report card sewn into his pocket

Her story had moved everyone. Now the child drowned in the Mediterranean with the report card sewn in his pocket relives in the latest work by Jorit, the artist who in Palma Campania remembers the little migrant with street art.

A look that moves us because it takes us back to a tragic episode, to a sad page in the news. How can we forget the child who left Mali in search of a better life in Europe and with his report card in his pocket?

His voyage had ended in the Mediterranean and there was nothing left of him. But now Jorit restores his dignity through art, representing his face on a 4-storey building at the intersection of viale Giacomo D'Antonio and via Circumvallazione, in Palma Campania.

Jorit as well as a face gave him a name Kukaa which in Swahili means to stay, precisely to claim the idea that every person has the right to stay in their land and must be enabled to do so.

The artist represented two people in his work. Below is the child with the report card and a poem by Aldo Masullo, above Thomas Sankara, the first president of Burkina Faso, nicknamed the "African Che Guevara", murdered in 1987.

Look at the transformation:

Jorit had been called by the mayor Aniello Donnarumma to create a work of street art, and among the many themes he chose to draw the features of this child who in a certain sense managed to break the wall of indifference and focus on focus on migration.

Kukaa now represents all those faceless children who died at sea. Earlier on the same facade Jorit had written some sentences by Vincenzo Russo, intellectual of the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799, a native of Palma Campania and executed in Naples, in Piazza Mercato.

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