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The report describes sexual abuse of children who herd livestock. Labor Department report last year, the word 'unavailable' is listed in a chart on the numbers of Afghan working children. The numbers are rising as growth in mining and construction, fueled by international assistance dollars, has lured more underage workers. The best estimate is nearly 2 million between the ages of 6 and 17, or at least 25% of Afghan children, Hashemi said. 'They must focus on today, not on a future for their children,' Hashemi said.ДЄid groups that have poured billions of dollars into Afghanistan since 2001 are unsure how many children work. More photosДЇamilies scramble for any job to survive. About 25% of children in Afghanistan work. Sami's bed is on the platform where baking supplies are kept during the day. Others resort to begging, collecting garbage or selling trinkets on the street. The regulations, adopted in 2007 and last revised in 2012, allow those 14 and older to serve as apprentices and those 15 to 18 to perform 'light work.' They prohibit children younger than 18 from work considered hazardous or dangerous to their health.Д«ut the laws are widely ignored because of resistance from employers and from families who need the income, said Sami Hashemi, a child-protection specialist for UNICEF in Afghanistan.Д¬hildren as young as 6 work in brick making, carpet weaving, construction, mining and farming.

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He shrugs as he flips over a steaming loaf with his hook, a weary gesture that makes him seem old and careworn.Д¬hild labor is endemic in Afghanistan, despite vaguely written laws that prohibit children younger than 14 from working full time. вЂњI'm happy I can support my family, but I would rather go to school and be an educated person,вЂќ Sami says. Sami has been at the bakery since he was 10, when he rode a bus from the countryside to assist his uncle, Yar Mohammed, who himself began at age 8.

Working until dark six days a week, Sami earns about $80 a month, enough to support his entire family: disabled father, mother, three brothers and five sisters. He then sits cross-legged to begin selling loaves for 10 afghanis, about 20 cents each, to customers who thrust bills through a window that he opens and closes with a long metal hook. Sami sweeps a platform where hot flatbread is stacked for sale. He gathers water from a public well and takes it back to the bakery.Д«y 6 a.m., the gas-fired stone kiln is glowing a fiery red, ready to bake the flat loaves known as khasa and the round loaves called kamachi. He rises at 5 a.m., sweeps up, washes in a pan of chilly water, then prays.Д«efore the sun has risen, Sami is pushing a dented wheelbarrow through the dim streets, at 13 still a tiny figure among the vegetable hawkers and butchers slicing bloody flanks of sheep from carcasses hung on hooks. Sami Rahimi sleeps fitfully on a bread rack above the bakery's cold concrete floor.

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