GHOR (SW) – Poverty has compelled an old grandmother in Ghor province to bring her grandchildren for sale in the market.
Rakhshana, 56, a grandmother – who has been displaced from the Tulak district of Ghor province to Firuzkuh due to poverty and hunger and now lives in a refugee camp – says that poverty forced her to decide to sell her young grandchildren. But, according to her, she has not had any buyers yet.
She says she has been displaced for more than four months and has only received help once during that time. “I have grandchildren, one is 6 years old and the other is 4 years old, two girls. I am offering to sell them”.
Rakhshaneh says she would sell her grandchildren for 100,000 afghanis. She added that they have no place to live for the winter and nothing to eat and keep warm.
In addition to Rakhshaneh, there are dozens of other families in this camp or on the outskirts of Firuzkuh who spend their days and nights in difficult conditions.
“People are very distressed in every way, they are disturbed in terms of fuel for winter, in terms of food and everything, and no one is helping us,” said Nisar Ahmad, a family member living in poverty and hunger in Ghor.
Abdul Karim, head of the Firuzkuh refugee camp, expressed concern about the poor condition of the families living in the camp, saying that there was no food or water in the camp and no medicine to treat the sick. “The problems in this camp are not water, not doctors, not fuel, not food, and we need everything.”
Abdul Hai Mobasher, head of the Ghor Department of Refugees and Returnees, said that since the Islamic Emirate took office in the province, more than 1,000 families have been displaced by drought and poverty and are in dire need of help.
He added that no institution has helped them so far and if they are not helped as soon as possible, a humanitarian catastrophe will occur in the province.
According to displaced families in Ghor, there are more than 90 tents in the province’s refugee camps, with two to three families living in poor conditions in most tents. They want the help of the government and aid agencies.
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