HW 33 Respond to a Podcast

“Iraqi Teens Work to Help Their Families” 10/15/07
http://aliveinbaghdad.org/2007/10/15/iraqi-teens-work-to-help-their-families
The general topic that this pod cast is about is children that are working at young ages to try and help support themselves and their families. There are three different kids in this pod cast , two of them work with their fathers and cousins and the other one goes to college and was born with a birth defect. Mustafa Malek Fathullah Ali he is fourteen years old and is in sixth grade. He works with is father in carpentry making tables and bedrooms. But he now works at his uncles’ house because of the dangers there are with traveling. The scenery in the background does not look very good to be living in. To me it looks like they are in their backyards, which has a cement walk as a fence and there is no grass its all just dirt. A viewer may learn the terrible conditions that not only these children have to live in but also their families and how unsafe they really are. Although I have not seen many videos on Iraq, this one looks similar to the few that I have seen. What I find most memorable about this pod cast is the child who is suffering because he was born with a birth defect which was caused by the war. The child had not done anything and does not deserve to have to suffer the rest of his life in pain.