Afghanistan humanitarian crisis

The weapons were handed over though.

And the Taliban are pig ignorant heathen bastards that happen to be very well armed courtesy of the good ole USA.

I'm not blase about this at all, but I have no reason to believe that any aid I give would reach the children. The Taliban are a law unto themselves. In the recent earthquake, women victims were prohited from speaking to male rescuers, while female rescuers were not allowed. Afghani women no longer get an education; they cannot train as doctors or midwies, but men cannot treat women, so women cannot access healthcare.

It seems only girls are being being sold. "The choice to sell daughters over sons, is because culturally sons are widely seen as future breadwinners, and here in Afghanistan, with the Taliban's restrictions on education and work for women and girls, it is even more pronounced." That is of their own making. And it's of their own making that selling children is even possible.

https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2025/09/how-the-talibans-repression-of-women-deepens-afghanistans-earthquake-tragedy/
https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2025/09/how-the-talibans-repression-of-women-deepens-afghanistans-earthquake-tragedy/

Where do you think the ' billionnaires' money would go in Afghanistan? The Taliban leaders have ££££. Some of send their own daughters to Western schools ( private boarding schools) to be educatedvwhuoe denying others and education. Maybe the Taliban should stop wasting their time policing women who dare to speak outside or whatever rubbish they are doing this week and actually run the country?

Hey, you started the thread. Thought you wanted opinions?

You haven’t thought this through, and your charity donation is the worst sort of virtue signalling as it ends up in the pockets of abusers. You don’t want to hear that, I get it. Doesn’t make it less true though.

Interesting video from WFP posted this afternoon specifically on the food crisis in AFG and for anyone more interested in the context - it’s on Instagram for anyone using that platform.

https://www.instagram.com/worldfoodprogramme?igsh=a2hhbGZiM2JoNmR

there’s also a short video on how WFP transports aid to various destinations for those interested.

Your money has gone straight into the pocket of an Afghan man. Well done. At least you’ve made yourself feel better.

Are you really not getting this?
They didn’t have to sell her to keep her alive. The men in the family are trading her life and her medical bills. She’s a piece of meat.
It’s disgusting, yet you are somehow sympathising with their position.

I imagine his wife didn't get a say in finding a solution to the problem, seeing as she has no rights. Really though, is keeping their daughter alive just so she can be sold off to be raped at the age of 10, then bred like cattle, watch her children starve and die, and possibly die in childbirth herself, really a 'win'?

It's difficult to feel any sympathy for a man in Afghanistan. In fact, I have none. All my sympathy is with the women and girls who suffer the deprivations and depravities inflicted by men.

Wow. Sounds like a delightful family.
They're all as bad as each other.

This ☝️

Note they weren't selling their sons !!

it very easy for us to say this we are here in the comfortable west where we we are all able to work/or receive benefits. we have access healthcare for us all, education and safety.

We do not fear our children starving to death, not getting basic medical care, we do not for our lives if we step out of line by whatever rule a Taliban official/soldier has decided we have done, we do not fear being beaten or worse just for speaking out, we do not fear our sons escaping abroad and never seeing them again, we do not fear our neighbours could talk to someone that puts us or our families life in real danger, we do not fear our daughters being forced into marriage, we do not fear our sons are taken at a young age to fight or to perform for old men

Its a terribly warped society and people are beyond desperate one child is tragically worth more sold to keep the rest of the family just about existing, its absolutely pitiful and I can not find it in me to be critical of a parent who is so broken to have to make such a terrible choice they feel there is no other choice, there is one other choice that has at times been made and I am sure that will have crossed many of their minds

Thanks so much for this list, @ginanddreams and for your posts explaining what aid does get through.

Also @noctilucentcloud for recommending the Linda Norgrove Foundation.

Like many folk I've been wanting to donate but was held back by wondering whether it would actually reach families.

There's no shortage of places in the world in desperate, desperate need of food aid at the moment, and I'm splitting my usual giving between them. I find the breadth of need can be paralysing, but I'm trying to just keep going adding my tiny stone to the hill.

I also think it's interesting how the original poster's question around 'if only there was the money, resources etc from billionaires to give to these people' completely overlooks (perhaps naively) all the things wrong in Afghanistan and how money and resources are not the simple solution to solving problems there.

This ^

There’s been a horrifying assault against women and girls by the Taliban for years. The BBC haven’t said much on that, but focus on the men as you say.

Very interesting framing by the BBC about the 'poor men selling children to feed their families' rather than 'these men are selling young girls/their daughters (who are very likely going to be sexually exploited) because women/girls have no rights whatsoever under the Taliban in order for the males to feed themselves'