Noor Ahmad, 15, helps his sister, Aqila, 8, in washing dishes, outside their home in the village of Ragshad in the central Bamyan Province. Their father works as a daily laborer and the seven children of the family must work up to eight hours a day weaving carpets besides attending school. It takes two months for the family to make a 5 square-meter carpet, worth 800 Afghans, about US $24. The house has no running water or gas, so the older boys walk two hours every day to collect water from a local stream and firewood from the mountains. Ragshad, Bamyan province, Afghanistan. July 7, 2007.

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