Mother buried three children

Wind storms blew the dust from the ground while Ghulam Mahden and his wife Nazo were walking towards the cemetery where all their children were buried.

The graves of the three boys who have lost one-year-old-year-old have been shown to us, one-year-old, and recently, Faisal Ahmed, three months old.

Ghulam and Nazo says that the three have suffered from malnutrition.

“Can you imagine how painful for me to lose three children? One minute is a child in your arms, at the next moment that is empty,” says Nazo.

“I hope every day will restore the angels in one way or another my children in our house.”

There are days when the couple goes without food. They break the walnut shells due to a livelihood in the Shidai settlement outside the city of Hirat, western Afghanistan, and they do not receive any assistance from the Taliban government or from non -governmental organizations.

Ghulam said: “I watched my children without strength and power when my children shouted from hunger, it seemed as if my body was erupted in the fire. I felt that someone was cutting me in two halves with a saw from my head to my feet.”

The death of their children is not registered anywhere, but it is evidence of a silent wave of deaths that overwhelm the youngest in Afghanistan, as the country is pushed to what the United Nations calls an unprecedented crisis of hunger.

“We started the year with the highest increase in malnutrition for children registered in Afghanistan. But things get worse than there,” says John Ilife, the rural director of the World Food Program.

“Food assistance kept a cover in this country on hunger and malnutrition, especially for the five million lower people who could not overcome it without international support. This cover has now been raised. The high malnutrition puts the lives of more than three million children in danger.”

Aid has decreased sharply because the largest single donor, the United States, stopped all aid to Afghanistan almost earlier this year. But the World Food Program says that eight or nine other donors have funded them in the past two years they also stopped this year, and many give others much less than they were last year.

One of the reasons is that donors respond to a number of crises around the world. But the Taliban government’s policies also affect the world’s willingness to help.

What do they do to help their citizens?

“Those who face malnutrition, those who face hunger, due to the sanctions, due to aid discounts by international organizations. Not because of the government,” said Sohael Shaheen, head of the Taliban Political Bureau in Doha, said.

“The government has expanded its help to the people and did what is at its energy, but our budget depends on internal revenues, and we face sanctions.”

But the Taliban’s stubbornness on women’s rights affects their attempt to recognize international recognition, and to prepare sanctions against it. The United Nations says other decisions, such as the recent implementation of a ban that was previously announced on Afghan women working in NGOs, puts the delivery of “life -saving humanitarian assistance at a very danger.”

The state of malnutrition is also exacerbated by other factors – a severe drought that affected agricultural entry in more than half of Afghanistan’s provinces, and the forced return of more than two million Afghans from Iran and Pakistan, which reduced the transfers they send.

In the Shidai cemetery, we found amazing evidence of the death of children. There were no records for people buried there, so we returned the graves ourselves. About two-thirds of the graves of children-it was easy to tell the small graves from the Great.

The village told us that the cemetery is relatively new, between two to three years. They also confirmed that it was not a specific cemetery for children.

While we were walking in the settlement in Shidai, people went out carrying their children. Rahaila was carrying the prestiges of God, who could not, in two years, stand. Durkani brought her son Mohamed Youssef, who was nearly two and was unable to stand.

Almost half of the Afghan children under the age of five, says the United Nations.

In one of the mud and mud houses, Rafi Allah, one year -old, could have grabbed himself, even while sitting.

“I took him to a clinic, they told me that he was suffering from malnutrition, but I don’t have money to continue taking it there,” she says. She and her husband have two other children, cutting of dry bread with Afghan green tea are the only meals that the family can carry. Some days do not eat.

Rafi Allah does not have teeth yet, so the baking bench is soaked in tea and feeds it.

“But this is not enough and he is hungry all the time. To make him sleep, give him these medications,” she says, as she pulls two strips of tablets.

One of them is a strip of Lorazepam, an anti -anxious drug, and the other is propanolol, a drug that controls high blood pressure. One sector costs 10 Afghan (0.15 dollars; 0.13 pounds) the same amount as one piece of bread. Hanifa says she bought her in a pharmacy, saying that she wanted to sleep pills for herself.

“I feel guilty that my children feel hungry and I cannot do much. I feel strangled and just as I should kill my children and myself,” she says.

Doctors say that when they are given young children, the drug like this can harm the heart of the child, kidneys and liver, and can be life -threatening if given for a long period of time.

Hanifa’s is one of the millions of calls for help.

“It is extremely heartbreaking to be in this country and watching this reveals. WFP has a hotline. We have had to re -train our call operators because we get a much higher percentage of calls from women who threaten suicide because they are desperate and do not know how to feed their children anymore,” says John Ilif of WFP.

Closing the food assistance of societies such as those in Shiday and in other parts of Afghanistan means that more children are pushed to severe acute malnutrition.

We have seen evidence of this in hospitals throughout Afghanistan.

In the malnutrition wing at Badakhshan Regional Hospital in the northeast, there were 26 children in 12 beds.

Three -year -old Sana, the youngest child in the pavilion, suffers from malnutrition, sharp diarrhea and a hacking lip. She is the child of her mother Zamira second. The first child, another child, died when she was 20 days old.

“I am afraid that this child may meet with the same fate. I am tired of this life. It is not worth living.”

As Zamera speaks, my hands and sana’s feet turn blue. Her little heart does not pump enough blood. A nurse puts it on the oxygen.

In another bed is Musleha five months old, which suffers from malnutrition and measles. Her mother says Karima that she barely opened her eyes in the past few days.

“She feels pain and I don’t know what to do. We are poor and we have no access to nutrient food. For this reason in this case,” says Karima.

In a bed next to Musleha, Mutehara and Maziyan twins. Young girls suffer from malnutrition and measles, and half of the weight should be in 18 months. Mutehara allows weak crying. It is clear that she suffers from pain.

A week after visiting the hospital, we followed with children’s families. We were told that Sana, her gossip, and a rhetoric had all died.

This is not the first time that children have documented the death of malnutrition in Afghanistan, but this is the worst we have seen ever.

Within one week, three children from one wing became the latest injuries to the hunger crisis in Afghanistan.

He is about to get worse.

“Human financing for CFP will be running out in November,” says John Elviev.

With the approaching winter, it is difficult to exaggerate the excessive urgency of the disaster that is revealed in Afghanistan.

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