the 2-and-a-half-year-old weighs just over 5 kilograms, 11 pounds, about a third of what had a normal toddler her age should. her mother is sick and we are poor people, explains camila's grandmother. she tried to breast feed but had no milk to give. camila, now one of at least a million afghan children under the age of 5, at risk of dying from starvation. for months the u.n. has been sounding the alarm, warning that afghanistan was on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. the taliban takeover on the 15th of august saw international funds immediately dry up triggering an economic collapse in an already impoverished country where foreign aid represented 43% of the country's gdp and 75% of government spending, according to the world