Waris, aged 12, sits on a pile of bricks in a suburb of the Afghan...

Waris, aged 12, sits on a pile of bricks in a suburb of the Afghan capital Kabul December 9, 2001. Waris has not been to school for three years since his family fled to Kabul from fighting in the north. His world now revolves around mud flats near Kabul airport where he, his father and his uncle mix the earth with water dug from deep underground wells to make bricks. [Child labour is endemic in Afghanistan, where 23 years of war, three years of drought and the absence of a conventional economy have made the central Asian country one of the world's poorest.]