Afghan Children, Deprived of School, Tell of Their Deepest Fears
The total number — representing roughly one in three school-age Afghan children — is expected to grow this year as violence between Afghan forces
and the Taliban intensifies, and Pakistan forces Afghan refugees to return home, according to Save the Children, an advocacy group.
I sleep with my five brothers and sisters in one tent, and my father, mother, and two small sisters sleep in the other.
Providing drinking water for our home is my responsibility, and I bring water in a wheelbarrow, in these small barrels, two or three times a day.
If I don’t go to school, I will become nothing in the future; if I go to school, I will become a doctor.
We sell the things we collect during the day for 20 cents, and then I bring the money home and we buy tea, sugar or something else with it.
After intense fighting in the district, which is now controlled by the Taliban, his father moved half of the family to Tirin Kot.
I studied up to fifth grade in our district, but schools closed a year ago because of fighting, and now the Taliban control our village.