SH, U's friend, continues to interview children in the streets.
SH: What is your name?
Child 1: Abdul Kabir.
SH: What are you doing Abdul Kabir?
AK (Child 1): I polish shoes.
SH: Do you have any supporter at home?
AK (Child 1): No
SH asks the second Child: What is your name?
Child 2: Mir Ahmad
SH: Are you going to school?
MH (Child 2): Yes, I am going to school.
SH:What grade are you in school?
MH (Child 2): Grade two.
SH: What are you doing now?
MH (Child 2): I am polishing shoes.
SH: Do you have any supporter at home?
MH (Child 2): No
SH: What does your father do?
MH (Child 2): He is a labourer.
SH asks the first child again: What does your father do?
AK (Child 1): He was a hard labour worker but now he is unemployed.
SH: Where you are living?
MH (Child 2): We are living in Khaskapa (a village in northeast of Afghanistan).
SH asks the third child: What is your name?
Child 3: Saifuddin
SH: What are you doing?
S (Child 3): I am also polishing shoes.
SH: What does your father do?
S (Child 3): We are 6 people at home and my father collects sand from the river to sell.
SH: Are you going to school?
S (Child 3): Now it's holiday.
SH: What is your name?
Child: Yosif
SH: What are you doing dear Yosif?
(U tells me that Yosif didn’t respond. She thinks he feels ashamed.)
His friend responds: We are collecting plastic rubbish from the street.
SH: What do you do with these plastics?
Child 2: I don't know, I am collecting these for him.
SH: Dear Yosif, why you are collecting these?
Yosif (Child 1): We burn these to warm our house.
SH: What does your father do?
Child 2: He sells bread.
SH: Do you have any older brothers?
Child 2: No, he has an older sister and a younger brother.
SH: Ok, good luck.