Sold the son for around $ 32,000 to pay for his daughter’s medical care

Half a million people have been displaced in Afghanistan in recent months, according to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, a number that would increase if health services, schools and the economy ended up failing. collapse under the new Taliban regime.

“I had no choice but to sell my son. Nobody wants to do something like that ”, laments Lailuma, one of hundreds of people surviving in Kabul camps as winter approaches.

Another woman, Maria, acknowledges Lailuma’s case and warns that she won’t be the only woman forced to make such a decision. “Our children are sick. You can’t sleep at night, ”he laments. The Taliban-created refugee ministry has yet to pay attention to them.

“They came here and did some polls, but so far they haven’t helped us. We are going to starve if this continues, ”laments another displaced woman named Aaisha.