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In a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts in western Afghanistan housing people displaced by drought and war, a woman is fighting to save her daughter. Aziz Gul’s husband sold the 10-year-old girl into marriage without telling his wife, taking a down-payment so he could feed his family of five children. Without that money, they would all starve, he told her. He had to sacrifice one to save the rest. Many of Afghanistan’s growing number of destitute people are making desperate decisions s...

A woman displaced by war and drought in Afghanistan is fighting to save her daughter

A woman displaced by war and drought in Afghanistan is fighting to save her daughter

A woman displaced by war and drought in Afghanistan is fighting to save her daughter

A woman displaced by war and drought in Afghanistan is fighting to save her daughter

A mother battling to save her daughter in an encampment of mud-brick buildings in western Afghanistan, displaced by drought and war.

SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan -- In a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts in western Afghanistan housing people displaced by drought and war, a woman is fighting to save her daughter.

“I am just so desperate. If I can’t provide money to pay these people and can’t keep my daughter by my side, I have said that I will kill myself,” said one mother.

Qandi, 10, was sold into marriage behind her mother’s back. She is just one of the children traded for food by starving Afghan families. Here are their stories.

SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan: In a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts in western Afghanistan housing people displaced by drought and war, a woman is...