I watched “Iraqi Teens Work To Help Their Families” that is part of the series “Alive In Baghdad”. It was published on October 15th, 2007 and can be found at http://aliveinbaghdad.org/2007/10/15/iraqi-teens-work-to-help-their-families/ . One of the people that appear in the podcast is Hussein Kamal, who is 15 years old and works in carpentry with his dad and does furniture painting, a skill that his brother taught him. It takes him an hour to get to work when it should only take a half an hour, because the route that they take is very unsafe. His interview looks like it takes place in a plain building, and they show some of the furniture that paints, a few benches. The other interviews look like they took place in a run down community, that is not well maintained. Another kid that is in this podcast talks about how its unsafe where he lives and he has been working since he was a child and is only in 6th grade. You can learn how the kids in Iraq live their daily lives and what they do for work, or atleast what they are able to do for work to try to help support their family. The kids talk about how the Iraqi people have suffered enough and to stop terrorism. I think an image that is stuck in my head is when the boy that is in 6th grade was painting the bench and had been doing that for years, and he was in a place that looked like a run down basement, surrounded with dirt and very unclean.
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