Parents selling children shows desperation of Afghanistan

“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.

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Herat ,Afghanistan ,Badghis ,Aziz Gul ,Helmand ,Qandi Gul ,Bibi Jan ,Asuntha Charles ,Hamid Abdullah , ,World Vision ,Ap News ,Ina 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 Guls Husband Sold Their 10 Year Old Into Marriage Without Telling His Wife ,Akinga Down Payment So He Could Feed His Family Of Five Children Otherwise ,E Told Her ,Hey Would All Starve He Had To Sacrifice One Save The Rest Many Of Afghanistans Growing Number Destitute People Are Making Such Desperate Decisions As Their Nation Spirals Intoa Vortex Poverty Aid Dependent Economy Was Already Teetering When Taliban Seized Power In Mid August Amida Chaotic Withdrawal Us And Nato Troops International Community Froze Assets Abroad Halted Funding ,Nwilling To Work Witha Taliban Government Given Its Reputation For Brutality During Previous Rule 20 Years Ago The Consequences Have Been Devastating Fora Country Battered 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Theni Think About The Other Children What Will Happen To Them Who Feed Her Eldest Is 12 ,Er Youngest Her Sixth Just Two Months In Another Part Of The Camp ,Ather Of Four Hamid Abdullah Was Also Selling His Young Daughters Into Arranged Marriages ,Esperate For Money To Treat His Chronically Ill Wife ,Regnant With Their Fifth Child He Cant Repay Money Borrowed To Fund His Wifes Treatments ,E Said So Three Years Ago ,E Receiveda Down Payment For His Eldest Daughter Hoshran ,Row 7 ,N An Arranged Marriage Toa Now 18 Year Old The Family Who Bought Hoshran Are Waiting Until She Is Older Before Settling Full Amount And Taking Her But Abdullah Needs Money ,O He Is Trying To Arrangea Marriage For His Second Daughter , Year Old Nazia ,Or About 20 ,000 30 ,000 Afghanis 200 300 We Dont Have Food To Eat ,Nd He Cant Pay His Wifes Doctor ,E Said His Wife ,Aid They Had No Other Option But It Wasa Difficult Decision When We Made The ,T Was Like Someone Had Takena Body Part From Me In Neighboring Badghis Province ,Nother Displaced Family Is Considering Selling Their Son , Year Old Salahuddin His Mother ,Guldasta ,Aid That After Days With Nothing To Eat ,He Told Her Husband To Take Salahuddin The Bazaar And Sell Him Bring Food For Othersi Dont Want My Son ,Uti Have To ,He 35 Year Old Said No Mother Can Do This To Her Child ,Ut When You Have No Other Choice ,Ou Have To Makea Decision Against Your Will Salahuddin Blinked And Looked On Silently ,Is Lip Quivering Slightly His Father ,Shakir ,Lind In One Eye And With Kidney Problems ,Aid The Children Had Been Crying For Days From Hunger Twice He Decided To Take Salahuddin Bazaar ,Nd Twice He Faltered But Nowi Thinki Have No Other Choice Buying Boys Is Believed To Be Less Common Than Girls ,Nd When It Does Take Place ,T Appears To Be Cases Families Without Sons Buying Infants In Her Despair ,Uldasta Thought Perhaps Sucha Family Might Want An 8 Year Old The Desperation Of Millions Is Clear As More And People Face Hunger ,Ith Some 3 2 Million Children Under 5 Years Old Facing Acute Malnutrition ,Ccording To The Un Charles ,Orld Visions National Director For Afghanistan ,Aid Humanitarian Funds Are Desperately Neededim Happy To See The Pledges Made ,He Said But The Pledges Shouldnt Stay As Promises ,Hey Have To Be Seen As Reality On The Ground ,Krhd 25 News ,Kxxv 25 News ,Parents Selling Children Shows Desperation Of Afghanistan ,