A house cleaner in western Afghanistan named Saleha, for example, sold her 3-year-old daughter to a man to whom she owed a $550 debt. Saleha, 40, receives 70 cents a day from her job, and her husband doesn’t work, the Journal said.
Yelena Dzhanova, Business Insider, 16 October 2021
LONDON DAILY ARCHIVE
Desperate Afghan parents are selling their kids to pay off debt as poverty levels deepen following Taliban takeover: report
Some desperate Afghan parents are forced to sell their children to deal with poverty, the Wall Street Journal reported.
18 October 2021 · 23:14 UTC
