‘I am just so desperate’: Desolate Afghan parents sell children into marriage to feed families

In a sprawling agreement of slush slipup hooches in western Afghanistan casing people displaced by failure and war, a woman is fighting to save her son.

Aziz Gul’s hubby vended their 10- time-old into marriage without telling his woman, taking a down- payment so he could feed his family of five children. Else, he told her, they would each starve. He’d to immolate one to save the rest.
Numerous of Afghanistan’s growing number of destitute people are making similar hopeless opinions as their nation spirals into a whirlpool of poverty.

Afghanistan’s aid-dependent frugality was formerly teetering when the Taliban seized power inmid-August amid a chaotic pullout of US and NATO colors. The transnational community set Afghanistan’s means abroad and halted backing, unintentional to work with a Taliban government given its character for brutality during its former rule 20 times agone.
The consequences have been devastating for a country bombarded by war, failure and the coronavirus epidemic. State workers have n’t been paid in months. Malnutrition stalks the most vulnerable, and aid groups say further than half the population faces acute food dearths.

Day by day, the situation is deteriorating in this country, and especially children are suffering, said Asuntha Charles, public director of the World Vision aid organisation in Afghanistan, which runs a health clinic for displaced people near the western megacity of Herat. “ Moment I’ve been agonized to see that the families are willing to vend their children to feed other family members.”