{"id":41451,"date":"2022-02-07T16:15:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T07:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/07\/scared-hungry-and-cold-child-workers-in-kabul-picture-essay"},"modified":"2022-02-07T16:15:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T07:15:04","slug":"scared-hungry-and-cold-child-workers-in-kabul-picture-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41451","title":{"rendered":"Scared, hungry and cold: child workers in Kabul \u2013 picture essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As temperatures fall below freezing, children as young as four trying to make a living on the Afghan capital\u2019s streets are all that stand between their family and starvation<\/p>\n<p>Amid the roadside restaurants and bustling crowds in one of Kabul\u2019s busiest markets, a 10-year-old girl is trying to sell plastic bags to shoppers squeezing past her. \u201cIf I don\u2019t work, we will go hungry,\u201d Shaista says. Shops in the Afghan capital are stacked with food, but her family cannot afford any of it.<\/p>\n<p>Each morning, Shaista buys a few shopping bags for 5 afghani (4p) each, then goes to the market to sell them for double that. As the UN predicts that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.undp.org\/press-releases\/97-percent-afghans-could-plunge-poverty-mid-2022-says-undp\">97% of Afghans could be living below the poverty line by June<\/a>, the number of child labourers and beggars has tripled in Kabul, aid workers say. Many are fighting just to survive.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/07\/scared-hungry-and-cold-child-workers-in-kabul-picture-essay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As temperatures fall below freezing, children as young as four trying to make a living on the Afghan capital\u2019s streets are all that stand between their family and starvationAmid the roadside restaurants and bustling crowds in one of Kabul\u2019s busiest mar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,247,574,245,59,53,393,212,958,79,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-child-labour","category-children","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-humanitarian-response","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-poverty","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41452,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41451\/revisions\/41452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}