I cough, and my three sisters cough. We don’t get medicine for it. When I breathe, the particles of yarn stick to my throat, then I get a cough. I have been coughing for about six years. The hook-blade with which we work has also injured my sisters. My uncle’s son in Kabul was young – maybe he was 7 – and working as an apprentice in Kabul when he hurt his eye. He went to the doctor who bandaged it.
My hands have been cut many times, but I haven’t hurt my eyes yet. I cut my finger with the hook-blade when working, but it has healed.
As told to researchers for Human Rights Watch
