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The children are having an evening meal. Consisting of a bag of boiled rice and bits of meat from big bones, that they have found in the garbage. Through the night the children take turns sleeping, because of fear of unwanted visitors. Grown-up…

With the breakdown of communist rule in Mongolia following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the first generation of street children was born. An effect of the abrupt transition to a market economy was unemployment, since numbers…

Boys watching a movie at an ice café in Jalalabad.

Beggar in the streets of Kabul.

Boys playing with kites in Khoskal Khan in Kabul. Kites were banned during the Taliban regime.

The Hisar Shai refugee camp between Jalalabad and the border with Pakistan houses people who were expelled from Northern Afghanistan because they were pro-Taliban. It will be difficult for those of the refugees living in tents to cope with the cold…

Children playing on an old plane shot down in Kabul.

Even with the Taliban regime defeated the vast majority of the women still wear the burka. A woman is looking at a bra in the market place of Kabul.

A family has returned to Khoshahal Khan in Kabul to rebuild their devastated home.

In the belief that it will spare them from their sufferings, mentally ill people are chained to the trees on a cemetery outside the Afghan city of Jalalabad. 40 days they spend on the cemetery living on water, bread, green tea, black pepper and…