In pictures: Afghan school life


'I get tired'

"My name is Heela and I am eight years old. I get tired because it's a long way from my village. But my parents force me to study every day, so I can be an educated person. My father works in our fields and this is how we live. I want to earn a lot of money working in an office when I get old."

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