And, yes, I DO take it personally: The child scavangers of Kabul

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And, yes, I DO take it personally

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

The child scavangers of Kabul

what a tragedy... i see them every day all over the city...

from al jazeera...

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.