As Afghanistan Sinks Into Destitution, Some Sell Children to Survive
10/19/21
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from The Wall Street Journal,
10/16/21:
U.N. warns that 95% of Afghans aren’t getting enough to eat as winter approaches
Desperate to feed her family, Saleha, a housecleaner here in western Afghanistan, has incurred such an insurmountable debt that the only way she sees out is to hand over her 3-year-old daughter, Najiba, to the man who lent her the money.
The debt is $550.
Saleha, a 40-year-old mother of six who goes by one name, earns 70 cents a day cleaning homes in a wealthier neighborhood of Herat. Her much older husband doesn’t have any work.
Such is the starkness of deepening poverty in Afghanistan,
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