Description:
Shuruq Habash, 15, stands next to a used rug at their rented house in the Al Basra-al Qadima (ancient city) neighbourhood of the southern city of Basra. Shuruq is in sixth grade at the Al-Huda Primary School for Girls. She lives with her mother and two of her married siblings who live with them . Their father abandoned the family and the mother works as a cleaner at a school where she earns 11,000 Iraqi dinars a month (less than US $5). In addition to her own schoolwork, Shuruq helps her mother clean the school, does domestic work for an older woman (earning 10,000 Iraqi dinars a month, eqaulent to US$ 4.00) and helps with chores at home.
Credits:
Shehzad - (Pakistan) Noorani/Majority World
Description:
Shuruq Habash, 15, stands next to a used rug at their rented house in the Al Basra-al Qadima (ancient city) neighbourhood of the southern city of Basra. Shuruq is in sixth grade at the Al-Huda Primary School for Girls. She lives with her mother and two of her married siblings who live with them . Their father abandoned the family and the mother works as a cleaner at a school where she earns 11,000 Iraqi dinars a month (less than US $5). In addition to her own schoolwork, Shuruq helps her mother clean the school, does domestic work for an older woman (earning 10,000 Iraqi dinars a month, eqaulent to US$ 4.00) and helps with chores at home.
Date Created:
0000-00-00 00:00:00
Author:
Shehzad Noorani
Copyright Notice:
Copyright Majority World
Filename:
MWC010046.jpg
File Date/Time:
1471646730
File Size:
10570922
File Type:
2
Mime Type:
image/jpeg
Sections Found:
ANY_TAG, IFD0, EXIF
Image Description:
Shuruq Habash, 15, stands next to a used rug at their rented house in the Al Basra-al Qadima (ancient city) neighbourhood of the southern city of Basra. Shuruq is in sixth grade at the Al-Huda Primary School for Girls. She lives with her mother and two of