The mother says the unidentified man who bought the baby told her he would raise her and marry her son, pay $ 250 and bring her back when her daughter was growing up, and then pay the rest.
‘My other children were dying of starvation, so we had to sell my daughter. How can I not be sad. She is my child. Now we have no flour or oil in our house. We have nothing. My daughter does not know what her future will be. I do not know how she feels about it. But I had to do it ‘- says my mother.
A family in western Afghanistan is selling their three-year-old daughter after failing to repay a $ 550 loan to a lender. The media reports that so many people have sold their children.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said last month that Afghanistan was heading towards universal poverty following the Taliban’s rapid takeover of the country. Within a year, the poverty rate in Afghanistan will rise to 98 percent, said Kanni Vignaraja, the UNDP’s Asia-Pacific director. Vignaraja added that since the US ousted the Taliban in 2001, per capita income has doubled and Afghanistan has achieved a number of development achievements.
Afghanistan is in a severe financial crisis as the United States freezes assets of the country’s foreign banks and suspends IMF aid. The sharp fall in the value of the Afghan currency and the sharp rise in food prices have left people starving. Unemployment is also high. The United Nations has warned that millions of people could die if emergency aid does not reach Afghanistan.
