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Live in Baghdad

“Iraqi Teens Work to Help Their Families” 10/15/2007 http://aliveinbaghdad.org/2007/10/15/iraqi-teens-work-to-help-their-families/

This podcast on Alive in Baghdad was about many young children, specifically young boys helping their families by working. Most of them have learned their skills from their fathers or uncles. These kids are beginning to learn these skills at a very young age. Hussein Kamal is a 15 year old boy who used to do carpentry but now he paints furniture. He works with his father and it takes about one hour to get to his work but it should only take about 30 minutes. It takes so long because the routes are not secure. There are many traffic jams and sometime killings on the way to work. When things are really bad, he and his father and younger brother work at home just to be a little safer.

Alive in Baghdad

“Challenges at a Girls School in Baghdad” 5/21/2007 http://aliveinbaghdad.org/2007/05/21/challenges-at-a-girls-school-in-baghdad/

Al-Safina Middle School is a girls school in Baghdad. There are 225 students but at the beginning of the year there were about 300 but it is because of sectarianism and displacement that forced some girls to leave and join other schools. There is a wide range of experienced teachers and they all say that they risk themselves to help the children learn by walking to school. Some girls say that they are not afraid of hearing the shootings, they just pray. It is tough to be a student in Baghdad because of the danger. There have been many searches and no one know what it will turn out to be.

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