Rising famine in Afghanistan

Afghanistan is facing its worst food crisis on record. This winter, it is expected 14 million children face to life-threatening levels of hunger, and rates of malnutrition are soaring.
With Afghanistan's aid-dependent healthcare system on the brink of collapse, many severely malnourished children are unable to get access to the specialist treatment they need to survive. While the agency provides treatment for children suffering from acute malnutrition in Afghanistan, some critical referral pathways have been disrupted by the crisis.
Hunoon* has six children; all of them are under the age of 12. The family has not had any income for months and is unable to afford even basic food. Hunoon's* husband has twice tried to cross the border of  Iran to find a job but has been deported back each time. Without enough to feed, their youngest child, Sara*, has faced to Severe Acute Malnutrition.
"If we could afford to, we'd eat twice or three times a day but we can't. If we can afford it, I boil rice or I make soup, but sometimes we go five or six days without food," said Hunoon.*
"If he (my husband) finds a job then he brings something home for us to eat. If not then we sleep with an empty stomach, in the cold. This is how we live."
"When Sara was born I thought she was just hungry, but after we visited the health center, I found out she wasn't hungry, but weak They said that she is malnourished and needed to be hospitalized." she said.
More than half of the population are resorting to drastic measures to feed their families.This represents a five-fold increase from before the de-facto authorities took control on 15 August, according to the WFP. 
Nora Hassanien, Acting Country Director of Save the Children in Afghanistan, said:
"We're encountering to one of the worst humanitarian crises we've ever seen. Desperate parents are coming to our clinics with children who are dangerously thin and malnourished. One of our doctors treated a woman who was nine months pregnant and feared she may be forced to give up her child because she couldn't afford to feed them."
"This heart-breaking and unjust scenario is being made worse because of sanctions and counter-terror policies, which can disrupt and delay the delivery of life-saving aid. Humanitarian agencies urgently need exceptions and carve-outs under those policies so that we can get help to children before the worst of winter sets in."
As we have said many times before, we must deliver humanitarian aid to Afghanistan as soon as possible.
We have tried many times in recent weeks to be able to help Afghanistan in person, but we have not been able to do so yet.
If you have any communication with Afghanistan, please let us know.

_{Source & credit: Save the children/AVC Father's heart}