Housework began before sunrise and children usually accompanied their mothers as there were no babysitters.
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2. Men at Work
Men have their own responsibilities such as preparing farming land, cutting bamboos and trees to build houses, making tools, and even sewing story cloth.
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Hmong men sewing story cloth.
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3. Children at Work
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In Ha Giang and Lao Cai provinces in in far northern Viet Nam, Hmong children, unable to go to school, at work collecting vegetation and caring for farm animals.
Young Khmer girls gather and carry home firewood for cooking and boiling water, in western Cambodia.
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Vietnamese youngsters selling food in Saigon and trinkets, in Quang Nam at the South China Sea and at a rail crossing in northern Vinh Phuc province.
Heading off for work, two boys carry war surplus helmets as buckets at Hue and child laborers wait for work in a field in southern Tay Ninh, Viet Nam.