UNICEF Photo of the Year 2007

He’s forty, she’s eleven. And they are a couple – the Afghan man Mohammed F. and the child Ghulam H. “We needed the money”, Ghulam’s parents said. Faiz claims he is going to send her to school. But the women of Damarda village in Afghanistan’s Ghor province know better: “Our men don’t want educated women.”

UNICEF Photo of the Year 2007s