Children of the slums


Children of the slums

A malnourished boy awaiting for his portion of food, an incentive used to convince parents to allow children to go to a tent-based school run by one of few agencies working in slums of Kabul. December 2010, Afghanistan.

There are many children living in squat settlements, shanty towns and slums of Kabul. Most of them are deprived access to education, to food enough times a day, to safety of usual childhood. Many work or beg on streets trying to support family, gather garbage, get beaten, witness cruelty of war. In the Kabul slums 40% of them die before reaching their 5th birthday.

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