Workers of Afghanistan

The people of Afghanistan are a tough, hardworking people, living in a magnificent but harsh country. Life is hard for many in this country of extreme temperatures, hot in summer, freezing cold in winter. Farming is hard work, dealing with dry, sunbaked soil that has to be broken up with wooden plows, pulled by oxen. In small workshops all over the country people make long hours and work is all by hand. Yet, objects of great beauty are produced in wood, brass and textiles.

For many boys theirs is a working life too; quite often parents cannot afford to send their children to school and they have to help out on the field or in the workshops where they learn the trade from their fathers. Others earn their keep running errands, acting as porters or shining shoes. Girls would generally stay home to help in the house.

Here then are a few of the working people of Afghanistan.

	Porter boy	Making mud bricks	Ploughing the field	Making brass ornaments
	Using a lathe	Making spindle	Processing grain	Jewellery
	Preparing grain	Blacksmiths	Farmer at work	Shoeshine boy

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