Description : Shuruq Habash, 15, stands to read aloud from her text book, amidst a class of sixth grade students at the Al-Huda Primary School for Girls in the Al Basra-al Qadima (ancient city) neighbourhood of the southern city of Basra. Shuruq lives with her mother and two of her married siblings who live with them . Their father abandoned the family and the mother works as a cleaner at a school where she earns 11,000 Iraqi dinars a month (less than US ). In addition to her own schoolwork, Shuruq helps her mother clean the school, does domestic work for an older woman (earning 10,000 Iraqi dinars a month, eqaulent to US$ 4.00) and helps with chores at home.