Ariana Delawari, 2005
Offering to wash cars on the streets of Kabul.
Trading an Education for Wages
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After the Taliban was ousted from power in Afghanistan in 2001, there was hope that millions of Afghan children could return to school. But Afghanistan is still one of the poorest countries in the world. So one in five elementary school children must work to support their families. South Asia correspondent Miranda Kennedy recently spent a day with one of those children.
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Child workers in Afghanistan
Students' Hopes and Dreams
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