7 year old Maryam is in 1st grade at the primary school in Bene Warsak Refugee Camp. She came to the camp 3 years ago from Iran.
Barik aab Bene Warsak Refugee Camp is about 60km outside Kabul and just beyond Bagram Air Base in Parwan province. It was settled several years ago for internally displaced people who had been forced from their homes by fighting. When returning refugees from Iran and Pakistan were displaced by the current conflict or as a result of occupation, they were also sent to Bene Warsak.
The camp lacks infrastructure with no market, few jobs, and a school that occupies the empty front room of a private home. Many of the 425 families left for Kabul in 2007 in search of work and food. 125 families still live in Bene Warsak and do their best to live normal lives in a community that has disappeared.
Carrying water from pump to home.
Math class.
The teacher at the blackboard.
After school play.
A father and son return from begging in the streets of Kabul for food. They were given sheep meat to fill their sack.
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