Shouts that burn from malnourished babies echo through the Hall of the Hospital of Busy Children in Kabul, the Capital of Afghanistan.
Babies stretched on their beds in clear discomfort as tubes for Iv dripping that gave them eating from their fragile hands. The shiny eyes of the smallest child, feeding through a line to his nose, rolling back at the time when he struggles to stay alive.
Meanwhile, their mother continued to watch, the victim of their baby’s suffering – and their own helplessness to stop it – engraved on their faces.
“I can’t provide enough food for my children,” said Nasima, a 37-year-old mother who her own hungry made her unable to produce enough breast milk. It is impossible for his family to be able to buy formula milk.
Outside these walls, Taliban fighters, Toting AK-47 patrolled the entrance to the hospital. This is a metaphor for the country’s dangerous state. Many say Taliban rules mean better security, now after a bloody rebellion ends.
But Afghanistan faces a humanitarian disaster, and the struggle to survive every day.
“I have to do something for them,” Nasima said about her children. “But I don’t know what to do.”
“We are far from a good life
A disturbing signs from the mounting crisis are everywhere throughout Kabul as Afghan’s incarnation on the threshold of economic collapse.
The crowd of anger on jostling outside the bank throughout the city – which has not run out of money. Many workers are not paid at all. Those who can access cash are only allowed to take the equivalent of $ 200 a week below the Taliban limit on bank withdrawal
Others now sell household ownership along the busy road on the side of the busy road – flea market despair – because the family tries to make any money they can. Every item they can live without being shown to buy other people.
“I want to sell these items because at home I have no food,” said a man named Hamidullah, pushing a carpet carpet. “Then maybe I can buy some.”
Not far, hundreds of families who fled their homes during the increase in Taliban during the summer now live under plastic sheets and small tents in the dirty camp in the middle of the city – lines after a row of emergency structures that have no other place to go.
Children – who make up 50 percent of internal displaced people in Afghanistan – play barefoot on the ground while their parents reflect on uncertain future.
“Until Afghanistan rebuilds, we are under threat,” a mother in the camp regretted. “We are very far from a good life.”
Adding anxiety of the daily life of Afghanistan is a growing anxiety over Isis-k, a terrorist group behind the August attack at Kabul airport that killed 200 people, and suicide bombings earlier this week targeting a cemetery for the mother of Taliban officials.
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A lot of decades of war, Afghan sadness has long been rooted, but is accelerated now with the suspension of a lot of foreign assistance that is the life of the country’s life.
The World Bank, which manages Afghan reconstruction trust funds, stopped paying after the Taliban victory in mid-August, while aht.s. Froze $ 11.3 billion Afghan reserve to keep money from the hands of the ruler of the country’s hardline.
Policies, designed to limit the Taliban, most painful Afghans, said Mary-Ellen McGroarty, Director of the State of Afghan World Food Program.