‘In Afghanistan, mothers forced to choose children to save’

(ANSA) – ROME, DEC 10 – Save the Children, which is providing Afghan families with children and babies with food and help to cope with the winter, spreads two dramatic stories and calls for the rapid and uninterrupted delivery of life-saving humanitarian aid for families who risk not surviving the cold. There is the story of Bibi, a mother forced to give one of her twins to another family in exchange for money – or of Fatima who was pressured by the family to abandon one of her severely malnourished children in order to save the other. .

Bibi – reads a statement from the Organization – is 40 years old, and her husband Mohamad is 45 years old, they had no alternative but to entrust one of their twins, born a few months ago, to another family without children because they don’t have enough money to feed their 8 children. The family was forced to abandon their farm about seven months ago due to prolonged drought.

More than 97% of the population in Afghanistan is expected to fall below the poverty line by the middle of next year. Save the Children points out that millions of children are at risk of getting sick or dying because they do not have enough to eat and an estimated 3.2 million children under the age of five will suffer from acute malnutrition by the end of the year. “It is truly heartbreaking that some Afghan families are being pushed to such extreme and desperate decisions in order to survive and feed their other children,” said Nora Hassanien, director of Save the Children in Afghanistan. “Humanitarian efforts are hampered by sanctions and counter-terrorism policies that prevent aid from reaching the families who desperately need it. We must act now to provide the children with the lifesaving help they need to survive the winter.” (HANDLE).

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