This image captures an indoor metalworking scene in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Two individuals are observed working on a dirt floor. In the foreground, a young male, wearing a black and yellow striped hooded sweatshirt, crouches, holding a small, elongated metal piece on a rectangular metal work block with his left hand. To his immediate left, a second individual, mostly obscured and wearing dark clothing, uses a hammer to strike an identical metal piece on the same work block. A pile of these shiny, elongated metal pieces rests on and beside the work block. The background reveals a utilitarian workshop environment: a brick wall partially covered with various cut metal sheets, a corrugated metal rolling shutter, a grey metal cabinet, and a mechanical balance scale. A dark, patterned fabric is draped over a vertical metal cylindrical object on the right. The scene depicts a manual metal shaping or processing operation.

Workers Including Children Operate Metal

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Wed, Jan 7, 2026, 07:07 AM

Kandahar, Afghanistan

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This image captures an indoor metalworking scene in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Two individuals are observed working on a dirt floor. In the foreground, a young male, wearing a black and yellow striped hoo…read more

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