ITV News published this video item, entitled “Afghan girl gets up most mornings to pick through rubbish to support hungry family | ITV News” – below is their description.
There are hundreds of children just like Rabia in Kabul, Afghanistan. She spoke to ITV News Correspondent John Ray and showed him her home, which is just a single room where her family lives.
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Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south; Iran to the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north; and China to the northeast.
Occupying 652,000 square kilometers (252,000 sq mi), it is a mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. Kabul is the capital and largest city. The population is around 32 million, composed mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks.
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