Parents selling children shows desperation of Afghanistan
SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan (AP) — In a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts in western...
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SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan (AP) — In a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts in western...
SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan (AP) — 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 their 10-year-old into marriage without telling his wife, taking a down-payment so he could feed his family of five children.
Many of Afghanistan's growing number of destitute people are making desperate decisions as their nation spirals into a deeper poverty.
The aid-dependent country's economy had already been teetering at the time the Taliban seized power in mid-August.
Many of Afghanistan’s growing number of destitute people are selling their children as their nation spirals into a vortex of poverty.