In the countryside, there are very few people mostly shepherds, scavengers and a handful of farmers but almost no habitable houses.

The FFM conducted interviews with anyone it found in the territories, including, but not limited to, local leaders, settlers, nomads, shepherds, scavengers, farmers, motorists and passers by.

Currently, a master plan was being prepared with a view to eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2007 and all forms of child labour by 2010 and a strategic plan had been adopted for dealing with seven key categories of child workers workers under conditions of slavery, scavengers, carriers, house servants, miners, rug makers, trafficked girls and children exploited sexually or as labour.