Saturday, January 3, 2009

Afghanistan's continuing misery

Afghanistan's continuing misery

By Hugh Sykes BBC News, Kabul

Children in Paghman, Afghanistan
Continuing poverty means many children are forced to work
Walking through central Kabul one day, I felt a little tug at the back of my thick winter coat.

I turned and looked down and saw a little girl with a serious face asking for money.

She was about five years old, dressed in old unwashed clothes and wearing plastic flip-flops.

I gave her the equivalent of $1 (

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