SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan (AP) 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. Aziz Gul’s husband sold the 10-year-old girl into marriage without telling his wife, taking a down-payment so he could feed his family of five children.
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.
SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan (AP) In a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts in western Afghanistan housing people displaced by drought and war, a woman is