In oil-rich Iraq, more than 30 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. Unemployment is widespread, and many children do not go to school.
Some people are so desperate for an income that they risk their lives in dangerous working environments.
Al Jazeera's Mahmoud Abdelwahed reports from Al-Kut, Iraq.

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