No help for Afghan child labourers - 17 Feb 09

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. Al Jazeera's Hamish MacDonald has been meeting some of the children who sift through the capital's rubbish for a living.

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• Hamish Macdonald
• Kabul
• child labour
• Afghanistan
• aid

[HolyCity2012]

It could be worse.

"Bacha Bazi"

[bharath1957]

fuck these bastard Talibanis

[hzqueen1]

hay people wake up.. we are human.. all of us.

[usmike77]

Al jazeera now work on money. with Sri Lanka LTTE terrorists.... same as BBC...

... All west media telling lies for money..creating news as they want....as asian we were beleived al jazeera... we know BBC tell lies about iraq... but now..?

Fuck yoour self Al jazeera... or tell cristian prabakaran.(joker of west counties) to fuck you...

.. or tell the truth... tell about real poor tamils... talk about them... or sleep with west joker LTTE leader . UN approved al jazeera fake on satellite photos

[eliseannville]

Thanks for acknowledging the history. I wish you would reconsider our part in basically opening the door for the Taliban (who you claim it is our only job to now "kill") -that active part actually gives us the responsibility to soften the damage we have caused in whatever ways we can-such as improving their non-drug economy and helping them improve their small d democratic governance to include schooling for all. The best way for a society to improve itself is to make sure women can read.

[justinobundito]

This scene is all to popular around the world. I've seen it in the Caribbean's, Africa, China, etc... Unfortunatly it's not a rare Phenomena... We cannot allow this to go on, they learn how to live poorly and it's hard to learn new things after a certain age.

[HerculesRockefellerr]

These kids would still be doing this weather the US went to Afganistan or not

[SirishT]

Yeah the U.S. funded the Afghans during that time but it was all done indirectly so the Soviets wouldn't be able to link the Afghan resistance to the U.S. We gave PAKISTAN millions of dollars to arm the Afghans and train them. THEY were the ones who trained them not us. You're right we shouldn't have dropped the ball. Either way though people who say that we are responsible for the condition of these child workers are just retarded. That's their own governments job. Ours is to kill Taliban.

[ubuibiok]

*****

[Inkan1969]

Yes, "dropping the ball" was where everything went wrong. That and trusting Zia ul Haq too much.