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Kids of Kathmandu

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In a country with political clashes and poverty, the children of Nepal are as diversified as the country itself. Rich kids visit the zoo while poor kids beg for cookies. Kathmandu, Nepal. 07/05/2010.
in Society, on the 7th of May 2010

Around Durba Square this boy hides behind a tree

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A Nepalese girl around the tourist center Thamel

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A girl shops for rice with her mother in Kathmandus central market

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A young girl with a british accent visits the Kathmandu zoo on a Saturday

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A young girl with her mother in Kathmandu zoo

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Streetkids play with birds in a cage

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A young girl asks "How are you" and continues shopping with her mother

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Three boys make fun of each other in the narrow streets of central Kathmandu

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"Give me five rupees," the boy says. When met with a "it's not ok to beg", he replies "then take my photo madam"

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A young boy at work in a cafe in central Kathmandu

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A girl with her brother at the zoo

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The girl and her brother clad in an American tshirt on a street in Kathmandu

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The young girl has just spend one rupee on candy at a local shop

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The girl stops on her way to a kids ride in Kathmandu zoo to have her picture taken

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A young boy in one of the many backyards in Kathmandu. From the streets a narrow passage leads to a small courtyard with hinduist symbols

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A boy fishes for coins that relatives have thrown into the holy Bagmati river while the body is still on fire

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"Hello" says the boy and runs off with his friends in central Durba Square in Kathmandu

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A boy tosses a coin to an elephant in Kathmandu zoo. The elephant is trained to collect the money and give it to it's handlers.

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Three friends in Durba Square

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Many children are carried around by their mothers. No use of babycarriers for the busy Kathmandu women

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A small child plays with birds at a temple in Kathmandu

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Children along the Bagmati river asks tourists for money

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A young boy at work near the Paktapur temple

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A small girl in the Tibethean refugee camp in Kathmandu

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A boy overcomes his fears and touches an elephant in Kathmandu zoo

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Children are often seen sitting on motorbikes with their parents

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A girl in downtown Kathmandu

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A boy eats an icecream on a hot day in Kathmandu

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The living goddess Kumari is a five year old girl. She lives in a temple at Durba Square and it is forbidden to take her photo. This is a photograph of a postcard

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A young girl plays with her brother

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A boy is given a toy before entering the zoo

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Young boy bikes with his brother

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Boys on a break from a football game

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Chips is always good

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A young boy out shopping with his mother

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Simple toys - a rubber wheel and a stick

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A boy plays with his toy around Pattan in Kathmandu

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Two children plays around the plastic recycling site in Kathmandu

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A proud father holds his child up "please take photo," he says

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Two Nepalese sisters in their finest dresses

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A bounch of ducklings brings joy to a small boy and his brother

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Two siblings danses along a temple site

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Streetkids

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A girl makes her way to the top of the "monkey temple"

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A boy plays with his friend at the monkey temple

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A mother slips fixes her daugthers hair in a ponytail

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14 months and already on a motorbike

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A girl outside a Tibethean restaurant in Thamel, Kathmandu

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A small boy helps his mother wipe the dirt away outside her newspaperstand

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A boy with the traditional tika on the forehead

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A group of boys play cricket in central Kathmandu

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A small girl at work with her mother in Durba Square

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