For his family and others queuing for the stall and its modest oven, the menu of the day is sometimes limited to these few bites of naan, a typical Central and South Asian bread.
“If I don’t bring bread from here, we’ll go to bed without eating”Amanalá explains to AFP on Tuesday that she has to take care of her two daughters and her drug-addicted husband.
I came “even to think of selling my daughters,” he confesses, to describe his dramatic situation. “But I gave up and decided to trust in Allah,” he adds.
This food distribution, which began on Saturday in Kabul, is part of a campaign organized by a university professor in the city, under the slogan “Save Afghans from hunger.”
The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has taken a dramatic turn since the return to power of the Taliban in August and the end of massive international aid, which financed nearly 80% of the country’s budget.
Unemployment has skyrocketed and many civil servants have not received any salary in months.
Famine threatens today 23 million Afghans, or 55% of the population, according to the UN.
Thanks to the distribution of bread, at least 75 families will receive a daily ration of naan in seven districts of Kabul, which is currently covered in snow and subjected to the rigors of winter.
In line, Nuriya Sultanzoy and five other women are swathed in blue burqas covering them from head to toe, in accordance with Taliban recommendations.
Since the death of her husband, this mother of five children had been counting on the generosity of her friends. But now that poverty breaks out, he receives nothing.
“You eat rice or soup with carrots and turnips… and you replace the meat with pieces of bread,” he says, while children, with tattered shoes, play around needy adults.
“People have lost their jobs and have no source of income,” says baker Makram El Din, who has seen his sales drop.
“We used to use four sacks of flour a day, now we only use half,” he adds.
The United Nations needs $4.4 billion from donor countries to deal with the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan in 2022.
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