Coronavirus forces Afghanistan’s child workers off the streets
Kabul, Afghanistan Thomson Reuters Foundation Standing on his rooftop, Massoud pulled the string hard, letting his kite soar high above the colourfully-painted houses of his Kabul neighbourhood. Just like the 12-year-old, many children have taken to the roofs as Afghanistan’s capital went quiet, catching the first warm rays of the spring sun or chasing each […]
Postcards: Street children bat for a brighter future at global cricket tournament
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Senegal’s street children turn trauma into art in Africa’s biggest exhibition
Thomson Reuters Foundation Young boys who were forced to beg on the streets for Islamic teachers have turned their suffering into art, as they join more than 1,000 artists showing their work at Africa’s biggest and oldest biennale art exhibition in Senegal this month. Some 50,000 child beggars known as talibe live in religious schools […]