Afghan boys and girls, some as young as eight years old, are employed to help earn money for their families, many of whom are refugees who fled three decades of violence in Afghanistan to places like Pakistan but have now returned. Some of the children work in the mornings and go to school in the afternoons. A single carpet may earn a family 12,000 to 13,000 Afghanis (242 to 262 USD) – paid on completion – but are usually sold for more in shops. UNICEF said in 2007 that a quarter of Afghan children aged between 7 and 14 worked, despite legal and constitutional protection and Afghanistan being a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission estimates that some 60,000 children are currently working in Kabul alone.–AFP Photos