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Displaced And Desperate, Afghan Kids Search Trash For Food

29th August, 2019 · admin · 3 Comments

By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan: At the Tagab settlement in Kabul, hundreds of families displaced by conflict and drought live in grinding poverty. The job of bringing home food often falls to the children, who are forced to sift through garbage dumps in search of scraps or anything of value to sell.

Posted in Afghan Children, Economic News, Everyday Life | Tags: Poverty |
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Over 18M Afghans Suffer From Multidimensional Poverty: Study

31st March, 2019 · admin · Leave a comment

Tolo News: Based on the study, 32 percent of six-member families had only one working person.  The study shows that 48 percent of families have no educated woman. The level of multidimensional poverty, according to the study, ranges from a low of 12 percent in Kabul to a high of 81 percent in Badghis province in

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Posted in Economic News, Education | Tags: Poverty |
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Afghan Grandmother Feeds Family Of 10 By Weaving Carpets

12th January, 2019 · admin · Leave a comment

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 12, 2019 Akramullah Karam Frud Bezhan MAYMANA, Afghanistan — Bibi Fatemah hunches on the cold concrete floor of a basement, hand-knotting an Afghan carpet. The 75-year-old is frail, and the work is exhausting. But the grandmother has no other option but to work after becoming the sole breadwinner in her

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Posted in Afghan Women, Economic News, Everyday Life | Tags: Afghan Rugs / Carpets, Faryab, Poverty |
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UN: Two Million Afghans At Risk Of Food Insecurity

26th May, 2018 · admin · Leave a comment

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 26, 2018 At least 2 million people are at risk of severe food insecurity because of a devastating drought in Afghanistan, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says. The hardest-hit are northern and western Afghanistan, where wheat planting has been either delayed or downsized in some 20

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Posted in Economic News, Environmental News, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: drought, Poverty |
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Afghanistan’s Poverty Rate Rises as Economy Suffers

7th May, 2018 · admin · Leave a comment

Associated Press: The Afghanistan Living Conditions Survey (ALCS), a joint study by the European Union and Afghanistan’s Central Statistics Organization, showed the national poverty rate rising to 55 percent in 2016-17 from 38 percent in 2011-12. Click here to read more (external link). Related Ghani Declares Afghanistan’s Poverty Rate ‘Shameful’

Posted in Economic News | Tags: Poverty |
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Afghan Mother Sells Baby to Raise Money for Relative’s Medical Care

4th May, 2018 · admin · Leave a comment

Mohammad Ahmadi Roya Zamani VOA News May 3, 2018 A mother of two in Afghanistan sold her five-month-old daughter to raise money for medical treatment for a relative. The case sparked deep concern in the country, and officials and others have raised money for both medical costs and to get the child back to her

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Posted in Other News | Tags: Faryab, Poverty |
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‘Not Even Dogs Live Like This’ — Afghan Refugees Return Home To Find Squalid Conditions

16th February, 2017 · admin · Leave a comment

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 16, 2017 Standing in a battered tent flanked by mud and human waste, Sahibuddin Khan and his family of five are among the thousands of returning Afghan refugees seeking food and shelter in crowded, ramshackle camps that have sprung up on the outskirts of Kabul. An unprecedented number of Afghans

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Posted in Human Rights, Refugees and Migrants | Tags: Poverty |
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UN Seeks $550M in Aid for Millions of Vulnerable Afghans

21st January, 2017 · admin · Leave a comment

Ayaz Gul VOA News January 21, 2017 ISLAMABAD — The United Nations appealed Saturday for $550 million in humanitarian assistance in 2017 to meet the needs of Afghans affected by conflict, or natural disasters, and for those returning home from neighboring countries. The assistance will reach an estimated 5.7 million “most vulnerable and marginalized” people in

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Posted in Economic News, Refugees and Migrants, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Poverty |
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Pamiris Seek Help In Faizabad

10th November, 2016 · admin · Leave a comment

Tolo News: A number of Pamir residents from Wakhan district in Badakhshan arrived in Faizabad, the provincial capital, on Thursday and lodged complaints about what they say are serious food shortages and a lack of health care facilities in their district. The residents said that government has forgotten about them and is not addressing their problems.

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Posted in Everyday Life, Health News | Tags: Badakhshan, Poverty |
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Peace but extreme poverty in isolated region of Afghanistan

7th September, 2016 · admin · 1 Comment

Associated Press: The Wakhan corridor, which has been named Afghanistan’s second national park, is the country’s most — perhaps only — peaceful region. But it is so poor, even for Afghanistan, that people get food on credit or barter for it, and children go barefoot during the long, harsh winters. The Ismaili Shiite Muslim community here

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Posted in Everyday Life, Security, Taliban | Tags: Badakhshan, Poverty, Wakhan |

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