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Unemployment, driven debt, and struggled to feed his children, Nooruddin felt he had no choice but to sell kidneys – one of the more Afghans who were willing to sacrifice their organs.
This practice has become very broad in the western city of Herat that the closest settlement is gloomy nicknamed “one-kidney village”.
I have to do it for my children,” Nooruddin told AFP in the city, close to the border with Iran.
Afghanistan has plunged into the financial crisis after the Taliban took over six months ago, worsened the terrible humanitarian situation after 20 years of war and the United States work.
More than half of the 38 million country populations suffered acute hunger, with almost 9 million Afghans at risk of hunger, according to the United Nations.
Foreign assistance that once sustained the country was slow to return after US sanctions. The country’s economy almost collapsed after international financial institutions cut US funds and assets of US Afghanistan freezes. US President Joe Biden earlier this month decided to hold around $ 7 billion in Afgan’s assets, returning half of the money as compensation for the 9/11 attack victims.
Assistance assistance and experts have called for the appointment of sanctions against the Taliban, saying the steps worsen the humanitarian crisis.
The trickle-down effect specifically wounded Afghanistan such as Nooruddin, 32, which stopped the factory work when his salary was cut into 3,000 Afghanistan (around $ 30) as soon as the return of Taliban, mistakenly believed that he would find something better.
However, with hundreds of thousands that are unemployed throughout the country, no one is available.
His family now depends on the money on his 12-year-old son, who polishes shoes for 70 cents a day.
