A Summary OfThe Plight Of Afghanistan's Child Water Carriers

Throughout his novel, “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, Khaled Hosseini explores the stories of different young girls in Afghanistan, each with their own unique story. One of the main divisions between each was their level of education and their families view on the necessity of having kids in school. It seemed that there was a direct parallel between a child’s access to education and their goals and initiative for the rest of their life. There were also strong divisions between adults and their views in educating females in school. Some parents were very open and enthusiastic about their daughters receiving an education while others thought they belonged elsewhere and going to school was a waste of time. The Taliban was a strong opponent to young girls and their educations and did everything in their power to prevent girls from going to school or becoming at all independent. Examining the importance of education from the perspectives of the Taliban, adults, and young girls in Kabul at this time creates an image of suppression and brings into question the motives of the Taliban’s reform rules and whether or not they could have been meant to distinguish the threat of educated generations weakening their power.

Introduction – Boy overboard by Morris Glietzman is a book about a boy overcoming change. We see this by him being happy where he ends up and showing courage to go through change. Paragraph 1 – It’s better to live in Australia then Afghanistan because Australia has fair governments, the Australian government actually lets women and to leave the house and go out and get jobs compared to Afghanistan where they are not allowed outside or get legal jobs. In Australia girls playing football is legal and Jamal even tells Bibi this he says “you can play football all you want because they have girls teams”, and also women are allowed to get jobs, most women don’t even live to see the age 50 and 1 in 11 women dies from pregnancy. The Taliban takes quite a big role in this, they ban every day activities for us for the women in Afghanistan like, women cannot make deals with male shopkeepers, women cannot study at schools, universities or any educational environments, they also ban women using a taxi without a mahram and they also ban women riding motorcycles and bicycles even with a mahram, and

In Linda Sue Park’s novel, A Long Walk to Water, two Sudanese children take readers on a journey through their world. At different times in history, the stories of Nya, a young and carefree girl, and Salva, a boy with a humble heart, weave together to create an intriguing story with a hopeful message. Salva and Nya use perseverance to help them find success despite difficult circumstances, namely crossing the Akobo desert,leading the boys to Kenya, and the daily routine to receive water.

Rotting corpses and a river of blood is something that we wish no person would have to see and hope that children would be far from included in these bloody wars. There is no hiding from the fact that children not only in Africa but in the Middle-East as well will experience this sight everyday. Written by Ishmael Beah, “A Long Way Gone” shows whether they are child soldiers or fleeing refugees every passing corpse will continue to scar their minds. The dead oppress these kids more and more to the sight of massacred villages until they’re surprised to see what used to be an average village to them. A village that is breathing life not breeding

Imagine a kid, no older than 8, walking through rocky terrain for miles carrying gallons of water to sell for just 4 lousy dollars. The article,”The Plight of Afghanistan’s Child Water Carriers” and the video, “For Afghan Kids, Hauling Water is a Living” explain the problem of Afghan kids missing out on school because they are carrying and selling water just so their families can survive. These two sources are related yet at the same time they are contrasting.

In the ethnographic chronicle, When Bamboo Bloom, by Patricia Omidian, Omidian traveled to Afghanistan to work with, aid, and better understand Afghans. However, her the Taliban limited her quality and quantity of work. Their control over the land constantly changed which forced her to deal with different environments each time she journeyed there. In 1998, she worked for Save the Children (SAVE) in Kabul on the land mine project that taught children how to avoid land mines. In 2000, Novib hired her and tasked her to work with the Shuhada Organization in Hazarajat to evaluate their programs, help develop a strategic plan at their program’s home office and take it back to the Afghan staff so that they could develop an action plan for their health program. In 2001, she worked in Herat for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (CHA) and helped develop a mental health program to aid their staff cope with life under the Taliban and the stress of living as refugees.

Geoff Pryor’s cartoon Tell me again Dad what was it like under the Talibans? - Afghan father and son in refugee camp suggests a blatant criticism of the treatment of Afghan asylum seekers. This criticism is implied through the comparison of how the Afghan people have been treated by both the harsh and punitive confines of an unidentified detention centre and the Taliban. The cartoonist’s realistic drawings of a father and son, showing the humanity of refugees, together with the use of irony and evocative language, are deliberately employed to help convey Pryor's point of view.

All hours of the day, in any condition, kids are hauling tons of water across the rugged terrain of Afghanistan, just to support their family for a couple of days. “The Plight of The Afghanistan’s Child Water Carriers” text by Sayeaed Jan Sabwooon and “For Afghan Kids, Hauling Water is a Living” video by Zarif Nazar are about children carrying water to help their families and neighbors survive. THe author’s portrayal in “The Plight of Afghan Child Water Carriers” text and the video “For Afghan Kids, Hauling Water is a Living” has several distinct similarities and differences. The video and the text discuss many of the same details surrounding children who are water carriers. The authors of both the video and the text bring up the conflict of survival.

In a male dominated society, the women of Afghanistan face many pressures and limits that are taught and ingrained in them at a very young age. Women and girls are seen as less than men and boys. They are viewed as being weak and unimportant. They are often pulled out of school and shunned to the house during their middle school years. Society sees no reason to educate girls when the whole point of girls is to serve as wives to their husbands and mothers to sons. They are taught that their entire worth depends on how happy they make their husband. As depicted by Jenny Norberg in The Underground Girls of Kabul, Afghanistan is a horrible place to be a woman. The pressure to birth sons, uphold a perfect reputation, and the economic disadvantages women face often force them to become men to have basic human respect and survival.

It’s a dry day in kabul and you get in your car to go to work you see a kid walking with a bucket you have a average work day and on your way home you see the kid still with no water with a face of dedication and exhaustion.”The Plight of Afghanistan”s Child Water Carriers” text by Sayeaed Jan Sabwoon and “For Afghan Kids,Hauling Water is a Living” video Zarif Nazar are about children carrying water to help their families and neighbors survive. The author’s portrayal in”the Plight of Afghanistan’s Child Water Carriers” text and the video”For Afghan Kids, Hauling Water is a Living” has several distinct differences and similarities.

Trying to escape from her toxic, war filled country, Ahmedi tries to escape to get to Pakistan with her mother for a better life. When she can’t get her job done she fines a different way with the help of a kind strangers. ““He had never seen us before, and yet when he met us, he said, ‘I will help you.’” the author writes. Ahmedi found a way to get her and her mother a better life.

Social conditions are what shape a country. Over the years, people, not only in Afghanistan, but around the world create norms that define people’s roles in life, their future, and how they should be treated based on their gender and beliefs. Khaled Hosseini’s first novel, The Kite Runner, comments on the social conditions of Afghanistan through telling a story about the lives of two Muslim boys; a privileged Sunni Pashtun, Amir, and his long-time friend and servant, Hassan, a loyal but disadvantaged Shia Hazara. Hosseini expresses Amir’s uncertain feelings toward Hassan which form the decisions he makes throughout the book. These choices result in Amir destroying his relationship with Hassan. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini is a commentary on the social conditions in Afghanistan as shown through the roles of women and men in society and the ideals of Afghan culture. Unfortunately, these problems are still active in most of Afghanistan.

Awela Musleh looks around her house during an interview with NPR News, ashamed of the disarray around her. Musleh is a mother of six, struggling to survive in the Palestinian-occupied West Bank, one of the most politically tumultuous regions of the world. “Look at how dirty my house is,” she tells Daniel Estrin, the host of the interview, “I focus on drinking, not cleaning.” Where she lives, water is a luxury. She relies on a few buckets of water to wash her dishes, shower by hand, and flush the toilet—buckets of water she bought from a truck that brings in water from other areas—trucks that are accused of such terrible price gouging, they’re outlawed in many Palestinian towns. But Musleh has no choice. Her town hasn’t had water for over two weeks.

As stated above the refugee certificate issued by UNHCR enables the Afghan refugees to get a temporary residence permit allowing them to legally stay in India. However residence is not everything. They have not been accorded the formal right to work or establish businesses in India therefore find it hard to make a living. Being so, most Afghan refugees work in the informal sector, they work as waiters, bakers and shopkeepers, to small businessmen and improvised translators. There are some prosperous Afghan refugees but a large number live in poverty; sharing cramped living quarters with other families and seeking work in the informal sector. Those that are in need receive some support from their community and from various welfare societies

This novel tells a heartbreaking story about a friendship between to Afghan boys. While these boys have many differences their friendship is remarkable. Amir is born to a privileged class while Hassan to a disliked minority. Amir can read and write, but Hassan is illiterate. Amir is defenseless while Hassan is constantly defending Amir. They boys are always together and even though Hassan is Amir’s servant, Amir looks at him as friends. This unusually passionate story is also about the fragile relationship between fathers and sons, humans and their gods, men and their countries. This story also communicates about immigrant communities and what it means to be displaced from your homeland.