Poverty forces Afghan children into smuggling
By: aljazeeraenglish
Posted: Oct 11 08
Witnessed: 331 times
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Child labor, Food & health & development, Poverty
Afghanistan, child labor, Food Crisis, food shortage, humanitarian, hunger, police brutality, Poverty
Poverty in Afghanistan is driving some families to take desperate measures.
They are sending boys as young as five across the border into Pakistan, to buy cheap flour, and smuggle it back home.
But the youngsters are risking injury, even death.
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports. (October 3, 2008)
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