HERAT: A man in west Afghanistan’s Herat province sold his 10-year-old daughter for marriage without telling his wife, in order to keep his other children alive and fed.
The desperate father took a down payment from the family who bought his daughter to put food on the table.
Azizagul, the minor girl’s mother, said: “I told my husband to bring food as my five children had nothing to eat, and he would regularly bring food. When I asked him from where he had brought the food, he answered that a family is giving him food on a daily basis in return for our 10-year-old daughter,” The Khaama Press News Agency reported.
Recently, a lot of destitute families in Afghanistan, who have been displaced due to conflicts and rendered unemployed after foreign aids were stopped, have taken such desperate decisions to afford food for their families.
According to the Khaama Press, on December 31, residents of northern Badakhshan province stopped another man from selling two of his children to keep his family from starving. -IANS
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People say money is the root of all evil! This is not true but lack of money is an encitment to causation of evil doing to get enough money to survive! Everywhere you see lack of money, you will see depravity and the worse elements of humanity! If I came back in another life with lack of money, I would probably do what ever it takes, no matter how horrible, just to get money. There are 3 types or groups of people who say money doesn’t make you happy! Group 1 are a rare few who are not motivated by wealth and couldn’t care less. Group 2 are the majority who realize they will never have money and so they convince them selves they don’t really want it. Group 3 are those who have never gone without and would have no idea what it would be like to be without it! A Clasic example of the horror of having lack of money is -“Now!” IF you need an income to survive, you have to take a bio weaponic Injection which is going to kill you or you lose your income. Think about how evil this is. If you have plenty of money, you can do as you please!
There is humanitarian crises in Afghanistan. Its a country with limited resources and looted by its own leaders. The afghans must also produce less children and work hard to improve their condition
Poor family that facing food problem having 5 children? Why you produce so many kids? Are you fool? Instead of supplying food, the world should supply condoms. Afghanistan should immediately adopt 2 child policy.