The child workers of Afghanistan - 02 Jun 08

[mythoughtsNYC]

It is a backward country. But I belive there is HOPE.

[dayspeace]

i really feel sad for this children who have lost their childhood in exchange for working and paying their debts.

[redmirror78]

I feel sorry for the donkeys too.

[SpatialVortex]

Some Americans here are very judgmental. Just think about it, USSR invaded Afghanistan and totally destroyed the infrastructure. No education = no progress. If these kids had a chance to go to school the same way in US, they'd lift up their country, but as you can see, they are not allowed to! Our kids in US complain about getting up at 8 am to go sit in class do arts and crafts... Just be grateful for all that you have here.

[BachaBazAFG]

asssghani culture produce babies to use them as slaves no wonder we always pose as being Iranian all the time loool assssghanis ♥

[Sunshinesrays1]

@BachaBazAFG

afghanis are the MAIDS/GARDENERS/DAY LABORERS of Iranian people (at least many of those living in Iran)

bachebaz kheily SagEE

:))

[RY1ck]

they all need 2 take a shower

[MakeupGuruFanatic]

@RY1ck wow after watching that all you have to say is that they need to take a shower? I feel so sorry for you.

[MrPanjsheriPigsheri]

Shame on Afghan government shame on Kharzai for not looking in to those cases.

Death to Karzai.!!!

[NewMeNow2000]

I just did the math from when that little boy said his family owes $800. $20 American could get them out of debt! I can't belive it. I just thought about the frivoulous things I bought last time I had $20. I'm shocked.

[west0882]

really if you look at it: it is no different than winn dixie or publix we all employ at 15

[eliterace]

fuck that whole damn country. they do everything wrong. including make the children work while the camel fuck parents sit there and shoot at civilians FUCK THEM ALL

[trancegurl84]

@eliterace THE WAS THE DUMBEST COMMENT EVER, One day your going to feel real sorrow, lets jsut hope its not half as bad as what afghans go through... Your heart is already torn to bits of shit, now keep cutting your wrists while listening to justin bieber you fucking freak

[wahidsafi]

@eliterace What the FUCK? why do you think people sent there kids to work? because they are so poor they cant AFFORD bread!! most of the adults are handicapped or cannot work because of americans. they went into that country and killed many innocent civilians because of search for some "talibans" that they trained in the CIA. stop being terrorists to THAT country leave them alone

[rameneater1]

poor donkeys :(

[ahmad26bb]

I do not what woud be the result of Afghan war.Afgani are poor, illiterate & divides in tribe & cost while you people(NATO) has power,well educated people & civilized country so for god sake, understand these issue & stop killing of innocent people,My Suggestion: provide education(include islamic education) to Afgani & provide Jobs then look.If a person have no food,no job then he can do an kind of Job.

Iqball said ;I found Islam in Europe & here (Afghanistan & India) only Muslims.

[1232993]

These are little sweet babies working. Can,t the whole world see that.If the rich countries and ngo,s help them for free education and helth in future they has to be a doctor and engineer,s

[sweetangelofpeace]

zangaydaray , children should not be working AT ALL.they should be children,period!wow, the factory owner is making a lot of money using this children who probably pay off more than what they owe!the factory owner should be put to jail..what a child abuser!

[blackthomas50]

keep em workin to build up thier strength to kill the yankee infidels...PS..to all ye yankee retarded troops..when ye get defeated in afghanistan..just like ye did in viet nam....remember,,,mcdonalds are hiring

[MrKorbrick]

@blackthomas50

Keep em working to build our U.S. bases!

Great idea blackthom!

[maceogillies]

no you idiot .

what would that result in if you kill the owner

uh more unemployment which means no income for the family

however the children should not be in this position in the first place ... the problem needs to be solved through a free education. we in more developed countries receive a free education which this is the solution however this is not available. the owner has to clearly treat these children fairly and provide the education

[Marko767]

juist kiill the owner, problem solved:D

[beancube2008]

This job should be done by machines. UN should give them technologies. UN is very foolish indeed. Sorry, I forget IMF is the owner of United Nations. Stop wasting valuable intelligent people, aging populations are everywhere. Build them schools, translate technologies and distribute useful shops. Stop western domination, share our industries with them if you want miracles.

[mumt109]

omg fuck the owner of the brick factory... i made my mind of wht i wana do in future as my career ... i m going bac to help my people... omg i wana kill tht greedy brick factory owner ...

[LogarLion]

This is one of the reason the Taliban will win this war and because the West and enslave the people by allowing warlords and drug lords and Westerners steal the natural resources of Afghanistan and defenseless children are forced to slavery.

[AFGHANVIEW]

OMG the reporter holding the baby so sweet

[zangaydaray]

Government of Afghanistan should make a law that every brick factory owner must provide education and health facilities to all children working in their factories.

[Guevara1961]

what a shame, this factory owner is a shark loaner, he should be hanged for abusing kids

[aliGsaj]

I cant believe how little people have watched this video...Afghanistan needs help

[oriakhil]

Hey, Lat-fly! watch out your mouth, plus, get some more education! b,cuz, you get to know my point of view! I hate Jihad by my self, and I hate Arabs! due to their prejudice and voilence nature. They have lack of tolarence towards other nations. Worset then that, they are using terrorism to defamate other nations. let the exploitation of poor such as afghanistan alone! BUT, YOU WILL NEVER GET MY POINT! lol

[csaoxcs]

This is the world we live in.

[temptation4life]

Private donations can be helpful but there are a few problems:

- Organizations spend 90% of it b4 it gets anywhere.

- With the billions of aid dollars going down the drain and the pocket of NGOs, contractors and criminal puppets, a few hundreds can barely replace the lost billions.

I appreciate your concerns for the people of Afghanistan.

[dregz89]

modern day slavery doesn't that asshole have a soul

[oriakhil]

I am totally speechless, shocked, useless, sad and paralyzed! However, I appreciated your concerns and Teresa's this documentary. I wish people in Middle-east or where the Aljazeera's HQ is located. Set a side a fund for such disasters. Besides, being world's poorist country, Afghanistan is not a bood candidate for Arab charities. On the contrary if there is call for Jihad, billions are pured in to those pockets who caused these families plunge into these debts.

[marioshriver]

fuck you, and fuck your fucking jihad ? What about poor arab, xho help them ? check the vedeo about egypt and food crisis, ma

[cali786afg]

you guys are all wealthy yourselves, you all have oil, u guys are just greedt bastards and its your own fult, afghanistan has fought wars with other counties ths is why there is poverty, go fight ure own greedy arabs

[masterpiwa]

OMG i cant belive it

[Demiandaffxxx8484]

Поверь....это правда!но весь народ Афганистана,будь то ребенок или старый дед,убийцы и террористы!!!

[stockshunter]

These families rely on their children for money. There are hundreds of thousands of them. If you to raise money and assist one the family, you may have done something to please your conscience, but you literally haven't changed anything. Even collectively, you won't be changing anything.

The solution lies within the central government and with then alone.

Don't get consumed by the grief. Drop it. Just observe and pray!

[smartspout]

i disagree.. this situation can be resolved.. as well as many more.. You can pray all you want.. that will help your conscience as you live with little hope for this world.

[stockshunter]

I suggest you should take a trip to Afghanistan and see the magnitude of the problems for yourself.

[smartspout]

Our good friend just finished his third tour in afghanistan with the US air force reserves.. we are more aware then most of this countries current struggles.. observation without action is not our style

[boteresa]

Hello...Im Teresa Bo. We are trying to see if an NGO or the government will get seriously involved. If not we will probably start something up to raise the money. Best

[smartspout]

Teresa- Thank you for your reply, we look forward to hearing from you again soon... We would like to stay in action about this so let us know if the waiting wears thin.

-wayne

[x80WildCat08x]

i wanna help if u have an organization..

[smartspout]

Hi Teresa..just checking in to see how things are going? If you would like any assistance in setting up an American based donation resource please let me know. Please stay on the story, I promise a difference can be made..

[smartspout]

Teresa ... any follow up to this story? has anything been done to setup a charity account? I'm sure we can make a difference!

[smartspout]

plea to Teresa Bo! come on Teresa ..please reply back email me a smartdonations at gmail,com

We can free one family at a time! you watch! you report on one freed family from our donations..the rest will follow! lets go !!!

[engengklangklang]

so sad! pls to any rich country or charities esp in england and US with loads of charity pls help them,im from philippines who got the same problems i i cannot do anything is just to beg for others!

[drealm]

Jesus christ I feel crappy and privileged. I don't go to school in the states because I'm too lazy and I don't work cause I leach off my family.

[smartspout]

Dear Teresa Bo - can you help free these people? your follow up story of freedom would be amazing. We want to send you money to free these families. please donate with paypal smartdonations at gmail,com

[kidjr27]

You know, Bush spends billions ans billions on war. Maybe if he would do something kind for the people the whole world could change. Also, how is it possible to have adults so heartless that they can do this to children. I dont think it is possible unless the truth was way deeper than imagined. Perhaps the global elite have been using mind war on countrys for centurys. Who know's. If you go to my channel and join The Brother List. We can unite and kick some ass!!! Illuminati, were coming!!

[tubester4567]

I would shoot the slaveowner before i sent my kids there.

[samwilson2]

VerbotenDingleberry There is no other way except loving muslim society How hard their life is but still they thanks Allah and praise Him, So much hard life but still smile and keep going unbelievable courage.

[hannahr77]

sam

give us break will you stop this B.S

[marioshriver]

your are just a fat ugly dumbass, no more..

[VerbotenDingleberry]

Gotta love those Muslim societies. So advanced. We could learn so much from them. If only we were more tolerant. Darn America and those evil Baptist Slavers...

[DocumentaryDude]

kill the slave owner

[limancikona]

It's very sad story, many thanks teresa bo for discovering modern slavery, let everyone of us do something towards paying debts of this young future leaders of Afghanistan.

[showmehow2]

Does anyone know of an NGO or other organization through which an effort could be organized throughout the world to get donations to end this absolutely sickening and heartbreaking crime, to pay off thise slave masters and give the children of Afhganistan a chance to improve their lives? This video moved me to tears. There must be something we can do or someone in the U.N. or another instituition to work through.

[hannahr77]

shown

so much for islamic feeding the poor and helping out the less fortunate, why don't teh arabs help their own ppl? it would be nice for a change to se all this B.S abt how islam is a religion that helps the poor and the needy, I have yet to se this happen, maybe not in my life time maybe never it's always us the Christians helping those poor needy muslims, so much for islam

[mcgrawtim123]

I thought every Afghan owned an AK-47. Sad that some do not, or Mr. Gul would be shot. But then there are the powerless in every country that the powerful would use and destroy. Tragic.

[smartspout]

teresa bo please jump in the discussion of ending this nightmare for these children

[y2knoproblem]

Mission Accomplished!!

[zakki123]

Thank you, AlJazeera, for bringing us this this story.

[smartspout]

Mohamed Gul is the owner ... how much US$ will you take to let them all go? americans will raise the money and send it to you via paypal

[FlushingzHighness]

hello my name is Terry im an Afghan American licing in New York... this story breaks my heart as does all the other events going on in Afghanistan. If you really want to do something as far as raising money please let me know and maybe we can talk. My aim sn is Miss Khan 510.

Thanks

[smartspout]

hi yes i am serious about raising money and getting these families freed of their debt. if you are willing to put effort towards securing a transaction process. I will raise the money to free all.

[uchoob00]

there are people who would take money for something like this and then run away with it. The world is a messed up place

[smartspout]

ahhhh... $100k settles the whole deal.. how do we get the money to the brick factory owners if we can?

[reddog95823]

Send it to me... I'll make sure he gets it.

[blackxavior]

So you want to reward the owner for practicing slavery? So you free the currently in bondage and he goes and gets 40 more.

[sugarpuddin88]

After decades of influence by America, they don't look the better off for it

It's disheartening that the strongest country in the world sees fit to bomb the poorest country in the world

[processLIFE]

thanx for making this public.

EVIL exists within and as the way we LIVE, GOD exists within and as any DOG that has no master.

the only way to change the world is to stop the abuse within ourselves and let LIFE as ONENESS & EQUALITY as WHO WE REALLY ARE be the only ´master´.

no gods, no masters, no evil exist other than that which we accept and allow within ourselves.

[lastnymleft]

Thank you, Teresa Bo, and thank you, AlJazeeraEnglish, for bringing us this this story. I don't know what the heck we can do about it, apart from feel exasperated (2:30), but it's good to have the knowledge, anyway.

[jailarson]

This crap is beyond ridiculous. Do people have no morals anymore? No standards? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE? They are KIDS for crying out loud.

[jamocamac]

It says in the video that the PARENTS became in debt in PAKISTAN, from the brick factory owner... it could very well be due to drug abuse, gambling, or other reasons as to why the parents went into debt to the FACTORY OWNER!!!

[pushtonyar]

How can we help them make a program or we can support every family in thier depts

[blackxavior]

Does the culture and society of the Afghan people have any responsibility in all this? The west is not some omnipotent hand that can fix the worlds wrongs.

[mostafa789]

God job Bush

[MementoExpose]

how is this Bush's fault?

[hannahr77]

mos

good job, muhammad the fake prophet and the greedy pakistanis

[Tareq88]

If you like I can make arrangments for you to debate on stickam regarding the Prophethood of Muhammad (pbuh).

We can record it and you can demonstrate your level of knowledge.

[alinorozi]

Its pathetic to read these gibberishs after having seen this heart broken instance.You guys have nothing to do right?You can make fun of anything including urselves.

"International community"?Is there any international community?its not an international community but international looters, who live like this bearded piece of shit, on the loot material from children and poor.UN = A community of United looters. The least UN or NATO could do is to leave these regions.But looters cannot leave.

[JigglesJingle]

Hey at least they don't grow up listening to rap music, and being juvenile delinquents.

[ratonnewmex]

got that right...your American youth are super super fat, super super lazy, and super super scareeeeeeeeee!

[LazarusDurden]

Yeah JigglesJingle because being exploited in a system that offers them no way out of child labor and debt slavery is so much better then listening to rap music? And just for the record not all people who listen to Hip Hop/Rap are juvenile delinquents. I wasn't when I was teenager, and I'm not criminal now.

[Energyium]

crazy

[johnjohn0701]

paying debts ? hehe u kidding me? these people dont even have an identity in that country....omg....it whats so called living hell

[Bhakthi7]

really upsetting... y cant the international community help out paying debts ?

[blackxavior]

Why pay there debts? Why not put the slave master in jail?

[Bhakthi7]

hmm gotta agree with u

[mercenarybdu]

teaches the kids some good discipline. School teaches you a little but not a lot in the larger picture unless you apply what they gave ya.

[LazarusDurden]

Mercenarybdu I doubt you could work as hard as these kids have to. Don't be an asshole and make a comment that it teaches them "discipline". Call it for what it is: Exploitation. This is just wrong. This is the kind of shit the US should be putting a stop to in Afghanistan.

[mercenarybdu]

people in the US take too take too many things for granted. Once they realize how hard it is to even work that load will they understand what it's like to be on the ground regardless of whether it's making bricks for nothing or runnings around with assault rifles.

[LazarusDurden]

Do you even know what you are talking about or are you just typing to type? There is a difference between receiving a fair wage for honest labor and wage slavery/explotation. This is a fucked up situation and no child should be forced to work that hard. And "runnings around with assualt rifles"? Do you even have a point with that comment? This has nothing to do with people in the US taking things for granted, but simply Child Labor being immoral. That's it.

[mengwise36]

Actually, the US already experienced that. In the early days of the industrial revolution, the child labor was exploited as well. However, progress was made and such exploitation was outlawed. I hope the same progress can be made over there.

[cycimian]

LazarusDruden. Your Correct as to those children being able to work harder then i can and many others i have seen. The exploitation in the East is all part of American Foreign Policys. Under NAFTA. Was the first big lie After the Gat.Its all about lowering the costs an maximizing the pure profit. When a pair of Nikes can be made at 3.44cents and sold in the west for outragious profits is clearly proof that BBuisness Runs the Country, Not your congres, senate or the President. But the Ultra Rich.

[MementoExpose]

Btw that Pakistani guy who said they were ''like his slaves'' is a f*cking prick, f*ck face.

[MementoExpose]

still better than the taliban.

[binsaif]

You are mind controlled. Go play your xbox360.

[mengwise36]

Better for whom? If they join the Taliban, they will have a better life. Isn't that the lure of the Taliban?