‘My name is Mustafa and I am the son of Ghafoor; my mother died when I was three years old and my father died in the war.

‘I am 15 years old now and I live at a home for orphans run by Aryana Aid in Kabul.

‘Before this, I lived with my uncle and experienced a great deal of hardship and cruelty from him.

‘I was a burden to my uncle after my father died, and he used different methods of torture to hurt me.

‘I spent my days looking after his sheep in the fields. I did not go to school and I did not have any friends.

‘I was treated like an unpaid servant’.