this is the nabi yunis shopping street in central mosul it survived the war largely unscathed. children also work here for pennies a day i guess they are the countless tireless little workers in post-war mosul. i. think most of the kids here orphans their fathers mothers or brothers are dead or they lost their home during the war they don't earn a lot for this kind of work just enough to survive. a. parent's are still alive but their house was destroyed in the fighting they're rebuilding it bit by bit and aboud helps to pay for that. i think a little of that they are want to bid to get it. but many other children in mosul have lost their entire families. i mean a simple orphanage has now reopened its doors and takes care of about 50 children but that's just a fraction of the total number. going up. life for orphans is difficult anywhere but particularly in muslim countries orphanages are rare and although muslims are encouraged to care for these children adoption in the western sense is controversial. they may be the children of i.a.s. fighters or iraqi soldiers they may simply