Afghanistan poverty: Parents selling children shows depth of desperation
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.
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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.
In a sprawling settlement of mud-brick huts in western Afghanistan housing people are displaced by drought and war, a woman is fighting to save her daughter.\n
International community has frozen Afghanistan’s assets abroad and halted all funding
Many of Afghanistan’s growing number of destitute people are making desperate decisions such as these as their nation spirals into a vortex of poverty.
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.