{"id":13343,"date":"2023-01-26T11:13:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T11:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=13343"},"modified":"2023-01-26T11:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T11:13:08","slug":"kabuls-minor-street-workers-carrying-heavy-burdens-to-support-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2023\/01\/kabuls-minor-street-workers-carrying-heavy-burdens-to-support-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabul&#8217;s minor street workers carrying heavy burdens to support families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; At a very young age, Waris walks miles in harsh winter to gather plastic waste to be sold so he can support his family of 10 people comprising of a drug addict father, an ailing mother and the minor siblings. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Waris, who lives with his family in the Kher Khan area of Kabul, wakes up every morning to begin search for recycleable waste on the streets. &#8220;I collect bottles daily and sell them, I earn 30 to 40 afghanis daily. Early in the morning, I collect the paper cartons for warming the house and the plastic for sell. My father is an addicted so I have to work. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His younger brother, Younes, who is six years old, says he also has to join with his brother for collecting plastic objects to earn a livelihood. While it was clear from the color of his face that he was feeling cold, but he says, &#8220;It&#8217;s not cold, we have no heater in the house so we don&#8217;t feel cold out here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A little further from these two brothers, two more young children were looking for plastic and cartons in the garbage.<\/p>\n<p>They introduced themselves as Mushtaq and Osama, 5 and nine years old respectively. the nine-year-old Osama said he is the only breadwinner of his seven-member family. He goes out of the house seven in the morning and, until the it becomes darkened, to search the city&#8217;s garbage points. &#8220;I collect bottles daily and make up to 100 afghani. My father is now at home due to unemployment. We have no heater, I have to collect a carton so that we can warm the house at night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few steps farther, another child named Mushtaq, who was 13 years old.\u00a0&#8220;I get started early in the morning and go home at night. We have no fuel at home so I have to collect the cartons for heating&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the other part of the city, I encountered a young boy sitting on a cold ground with few shoe polishing items waiting for someone to come and ask him to polish the shoes. The boy, around eight years old, introduced himself as Mohammad Hassan. &#8220;We are 4 people in the house, no one else is working,&#8221; he says. &#8220;The money I earn in the day is not enough, my mother is sick and we don&#8217;t have the money to treat her. My older brother doesn&#8217;t work either. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Hassan added that he earns around 30 or 40 afghanis a day that is just not enough to feed his parents and siblings.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; At a very young age, Waris walks miles in harsh winter to gather plastic waste to be sold so he can support his family of 10 people comprising of a drug addict father, an ailing mother and the minor siblings. Waris, who lives with his family in the Kher Khan area of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,979],"tags":[12,87,166,278],"class_list":["post-13343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-humanitarian-crisis","tag-afghanistan","tag-poverty","tag-kabul","tag-children"],"views":62,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13345,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions\/13345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}