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Nearly 3000 children go missing every year in Pakistan. Some have just wandered away from their families and got lost, others have been taken for forced labour and increasing numbers have been kidnapped by bandits, who hold them for ransom.

In the town of Larkana in the southern province of Sindh, where central Government has little control, Barber and Outlook Inspirations nominee Anwar Khokhar has dedicated his life to helping these missing children. He began his work in his own home, but eventually was given a piece of land where he built a shelter for the hundreds of children he looks after.

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