Eighty percent of school-age Afghan refugee children in Pakistan have no access to school, a non-governmental organisation says.
Alif Ailaan, a non-profit organisation promoting education, It said around 570,000 Afghan refugee children between five and 16 years were not going to schools in Pakistan.
It said the numbers were also registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Omar Orakzai, a staffer of Alif Ailaan, said in an interview with VOA hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugee children in the country were out of school.
Lack of residency documents was the main reason for public and private schools denying them admission outside refugee camps, he explained.
He added most of the refugees in Pakistan lived below the poverty line and needed to find a small meal for the day and their children were working in restaurants or collected garbage.
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