Many people left their hometowns and came to this bastion due to years of war and famine. Families from far and wide have flocked here to be safe and find work in a nearby town.
As soon as the car landed, a cold wind blew on Rivu. Understood that winter was approaching. Are you selling children who can’t tolerate poverty? Or we went there to find out if they were rumours.
Shortly after we got there, a man approached a member of our team directly. "Would you buy any of our children?".
Selling children for immortal food
As we went a little further a woman came up to us with sin. He said he urgently needed the money and had already sold the one-and-a-half-year-old child.Meanwhile, people started gathering around us. One of them said he sold his 13-month-old niece for money.
The family needs to find food daily. Most days they go to bed hungry. The baby's father is collecting garbage and exploiting the family.
There was aggression and helplessness in his words. The money from selling the baby will save their lives. The rest of the children get food.
We never imagined how many families here would be in such a predicament of selling their children.
As a result, all government activities, including the development schemes undertaken by the government and the salaries paid to government employees, came to a standstill.
But, more people will have to starve if this problem is not solved soon.It is clear from the conditions seen in Herat that it is difficult for millions of Afghans to cope with this winter without outside help.