Marziya and the Homeless Kids

Marziya and the Homeless Kids, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

This is Marziya , deeply concerned I can read the message in her eyes , she knows something is amiss with the kids, I gave them some money, but than it is not a solution that ends their misery..
They are workers forced into beggary , all part of a system that exists but who cares anyway.

This is one picture of Marziya that has got deeply embedded in my own painful consciousness .

At home she is always shouting Ya Ali or beating her chest with both hands crying out Ya Hussain Ya Hussain.

But what scares me the most when she puts her hand on her forehead and begins moving an imaginary blade over her face..

She has never seen or has ever been exposed to Moharam rituals , not even on TV .

So I know she is a very gifted child..

I have absolutely stopped shooting her pictures , but today I took these few.