Sick young farmers [Archives:2005/899/Health]
December 1 2005
BY AMEL MOHAMMED ALARIQI
SADAM AL-ASHMOREE
Yemen Times Staff
Zaid Altweeli, nine years old, does not go to school. He is busy working with his father in their own field ” I and my eight brothers are working in the field from eight in the morning until three in the afternoon”” he said. “”We don't go to school because we don't have the time. Our father is forcing us to work in our Qat field””.
Zaid is one of 292.000 children who work in the agricultural sector
