Karachi ¨C From the age of 10, Amina has been scrubbing, sweeping and cooking in a middle-class home in Pakistan¡¯s megacity of Karachi.
Like millions of Pakistani children, she is a household helper, an illegal but common practice that brings grief to families often too poor to seek justice.
¡°Alongside my mother, I cut vegetables, wash dishes, sweep the floor and mop. I hate working for this family,¡± said the 13-year-old, who leaves her slum neighborhood in Karachi at 7 a.m. and often returns after dark.
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