Afghanistan: Kids dance with death

The streets are full of working kids. By some estimates, 70,000 children are working on the streets of Afghanistan's main city, and the number is growing as IDPs, or internally displaced persons, flock towards the rel a tive calm of Kabul.

Many are barely tall enough to press their noses to the window of a passing car and stare into its warm, comfortable interior. They may be as young as six or seven years old, but they are working - and they are the lucky ones: a full one quarter of all Afghan children do not make it past five years of age.

In a country with an average life expectancy of 44, these children learn early how to work to survive. They dart and weave among the passing cars, flap ping filthy rags at wind screens, tapping the window with sticks of chewing gum, swarm ing SUVs with noisy pleas for a coin or food scraps.