Description : Lida (12 years old) cook food on a kerosene stove for her family. She is one of eight in this household in the Khairkhana neighbourhood of Kabul, the capital. Her father is a shoemaker who earns barely enough to provide two meals a day for his family. Currently the only child in her family going to school, Lida frequently misses class to help care for her siblings. The neighbourhood home-based school she attends is part of a network of schools run by the General Work and Development Association (GWA), a local NGO