TIMERGARA: A grade-3 girl student of a school at a refugee camp here sells boiled eggs after school hours to support her family.

“I have to make efforts to earn because there is no male bread earner in our family,” said the student, Saddiqua, 8. Selling boiled eggs on a suspension bridge at Zawal Baba here on Sunday, she told Dawn that she had to support her mother, four sisters and a young brother. Saddiqua, an Afghan girl, said that her father had died two years ago, but her mother still wanted her to continue education.

“Now I have been selling boiled eggs not only to afford my expenses, but also to earn bread for my family,” she said and appealed to the government and philanthropists to assist her family in order to enable them to lead a respectable life.