Menial Labor, Physical Abuse, Forced Marriage
by Steve Little, CBN:
Christian Ministries Sending the Gospel to Iran’s Most Vulnerable.
A coalition of Christian ministries is conducting a special outreach to help vulnerable children in Iran.
In Tehran, some 4,600 children work on the streets, searching through dumpsters to collect recyclable garbage, cleaning cars, and doing other menial tasks to survive.
Mike Ansari, president, and CEO of Heart4Iran told CBN’s Christian World News that many of the children are Afghan refugees.
“So, these are Afghan children that have escaped from the Taliban and found themselves and their families in Iran,” Ansari said. “Children are being exploited for profit. According to Iranian human rights groups, children in Iran are facing intense child labor, physical abuse, child-trafficking, forced marriages.”
“As you know Iran is an Islamic country and according to Islamic Sharia law, kids, especially girls, can marry as young as nine,” he explained.
“Thousands of children who have lost their parents to Covid and now have to fend for themselves, becoming homeless or becoming a trafficking victim or refugee,” Ansari added.
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