Babies being sold to feed the family

 Freezing health facilities overflowing with malnourished children. People burning their possessions to keep warm. Livelihoods across the country have been lost.

Afghanistan’s aid-dependent economy was already teetering when the Taliban seized power in 2021 amid a chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops. The international community froze Afghanistan’s assets abroad and halted funding, unwilling to work with a Taliban government. 

The situation is deteriorating in this country, and especially children are suffering, buying boys is believed to be less common than girls, and when it does take place, it appears to be cases of families without sons buying infants.

The desperation of millions is clear as more and more people face hunger, with some 3.2 million children under 5 facing acute malnutrition, according to the U.N.

humanitarian community need to stand up and stay with the people of Afghanistan, this is most painful point in their history.

_{Source and Credit: NPR, APANEWS}