Faced with this total despair, more and more parents are opting for a radical solution, which Liseron Boudoul had already observed in his previous report: selling their very young daughter. The father of a baby just one year old, already married for 250 euros, testifies. “I had no other options. I had to sell it. I swear to you that to eat, we only have stale bread. We soak it in water and when it becomes soft, we eat it. C this is our lifehe justifies. “If you were in my place, you wouldn’t have sold your daughter? Instead of seeing my six children die of hunger, it’s better to sacrifice one. But of course I love my little one”, he says again. The man who bought her baby, to marry her to his son later, will pick her up before winter.
Next door, another woman lives in a mud hut, covered with a plastic sheet. Her daughter will never go to school. “We are hungry. My father married me for 200,000 Afghanis”, or about 2000 euros, loose the child. If she recognizes that she is not “not ready” to get married, she hopes it will allow her to eat at least twice a day. The 7-year-old girl will soon join her future husband, who is 26.