Muhmand said that decades of war in Afghanistan had left many children without fathers, making them responsible for supporting their family and that as a result the country had to let teenagers work, but not in hazardous jobs.
Flexible schooling to cater for working children was one way of making sure some children did not miss out on an education and programs that offered vocational training as well as traditional subjects, a spokesman for Save The Children said.
He said that while it was entrenched in Afghan culture and religion that children should be in school, it had become socially acceptable to send children out to work because families had become so desperate.
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