Posted on 01/23/2022 9:51:30 AM PST by Cronos
The temperature is dropping to below zero in western Afghanistan and Delaram Rahmati is struggling to find food for her8children.
Since leaving the family home in the country’s Badghis province four years ago, the Rahmatis have been living in a mud hut with a plastic roof in one of Herat city’s slums. Drought made their village unliveable and the land unworkable. Like an estimated 3.5 million Afghans who have been forced to leave their homes, the Rahmatis now live in a neighbourhood for internally displaced people (IDP).
There are no jobs. But the 50-year-old has hospital fees to pay for two of her sons, one of whom is paralysed and the other who has mental illness, as well as medicine for her husband.
“I was forced to sell two of my daughters, an eight- and six-year-old,” she says. Rahmati says she sold her daughters a few months ago for 100,000 afghani each (roughly £700), to families she doesn’t know. Her daughters will stay with her until they reach puberty and then be handed over to strangers.
It is not uncommon in Afghanistan to arrange the sale of a daughter into a future marriage but raise her at home until it is time for her to leave. However, as the country’s economic crisis deepens, families are reporting that they are handing children over at an increasingly young age because they cannot afford to feed them.
Afghanistan is on the brink of “a humanitarian crisis and economic collapse”, according to the UN. The agency’s ambassador to Afghanistan has said it is “experiencing the worst humanitarian crisis of its contemporary history”. Drought, Covid-19 and the economic sanctions imposed after the Taliban seized power in August 2021 have had catastrophic consequences on the economy. Dramatic rises in inflation have resulted in soaring food prices.
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They need to look at the bright side, the market for daughters seems to be in good shape.
That could be a business opportunity.
Hey, but at least we got to briefly fly the LGBTQ flag over Kabul.
That goes double for me.
Now the same people who left 85 billion dollars worth of weapons for the Taliban want to 'help' the people of Ukraine... Let's prop up one more third world hellhole that doesn't matter to our country. How many weapons can we leave for the Ukrainians?
Cool story, Delaram. Keep us updated, won’t you? Lmao.
Good one.
The Afhhans practically invited them in.
The photograph in the article shows a woman with eyes like a Hazara.
Those Hazaras are descendents of Mongils and are Shia and opposed the Ta( who are Sunni and mainly Pashtun). Her husband may have been killed by the Talibs in ethnic cleansing.
NOW, I should care? WHY?
Don’t cry for me, Afghanistan.
I have sympathy for the daughters. They were born into this volatile environment and had no choice in the matter. It’s very sad.
I’ll give you that
The way Biden is running things in a few years people in the US could be selling their kidneys to wealthy Chinese overlords for money to heat their homes and put food on the table.
I have a better idea!
Lets relocate the UN headquarters to afganistan.
The article says the husband needs medicine, so he’s still in the picture.
“Allahu akbar!”
God is Great!
Too bad.
ISLAM is evil.
So no offense but two perishable sons lives have to be extended at the cost of two healthy daughters. Yeh, I’m not feeling it.
The snippet said that she’s struggling to get medicine for her husband.
Amen. Spread the word.
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