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No help for Afghan child labourers - 17 Feb 09
By: aljazeeraenglish
Posted: Feb 18 09
Witnessed: 1789 times
Regions: Afghanistan
Issues: Child labor, Poverty
Tags: Afghanistan, war, wastepickers
Foreign leaders say the ultimate goal in Afghanistan is to improve the lives of ordinary people. For more than forty thousand children forced to survive by taking up work in Kabul, there's little evidence of anything actually improving. Al Jazeera's Hamish MacDonald has been meeting some of the children who sift through the capital's rubbish for a living.
( This video was originally uploaded to YouTube by Al Jazeera here)
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