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In Afghanistan, the Taliban recaptured Kabul two months ago. Today, the Afghan population is facing a dramatic humanitarian crisis. Millions of families are starving and sick.
Massed in the back of a container, children under ten wait and hope to retrieve a meager bag of provisions. In a village in western Afghanistan, in the province of Herat, survival depends only on the rare food distributions. In a dispensary, cases of malnutrition are increasing, to the despair of families.
“Life is hard and we suffer every day, we have nothing to eat and no money to pay for a doctor“, laments an Afghan. The famine which threatens Afghanistan spares no one. In a hospital located in Herat, infants, between three and six months, are struggling not to die. The ward is full, and beds are lacking. Babies have to share the same stretcher. The mother of a six-month-old boy, who weighs only three kilos, is collapsed. “Her suffering, I feel like I can feel it too she confides. Two of my children are in danger of death because we have no money“According to the World Food Program, more than three million Afghan children today suffer from acute malnutrition. In addition, the country is deprived of most of the international aid.