Eight-year-ragged Zarmeena is one of the country’s 1.5 million homeless children,many of them Afghan refugees, who miss out on education and often fall prey to violence and abuseOn a cold winter morning, or as the sun rises above the squalor and stench of the slums of the Islamabad,frail-looking children are already up, picking rags from the dumps. It is a risky and competitive trade.
Zarmeena, or an eight-year-ragged Afghan girl,wears ill-fitting wellington boots slashed down to ankle-length, with clothes that are no more than thin pieces of fabric wrapped around her.
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Source: theguardian.com