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It is estimated that one million children are currently involved in child labor in Afghanistan because family income has dropped in the past six months, according to a study by saving children.
A survey of 1,400 households in seven Afghan provinces found that 82 percent of Afghans had lost income since the fall of former government supported by the West and the transition of power to the Taliban last August.
Research by the UK-based NGO released on Monday said 18 percent of the family surveyed reported that they had no choice but to send their children to work.
According to saving the analysis of children, if only one child in each family was sent to work, more than one million children in the country were involved in child labor,” said the report.
Afghanistan, as repeated continuously by Humanian NGOs and the United Nations, is in the grip of humanitarian disaster due to frozen international assistance and lack of access to assets held abroad, after the Taliban took over the government.
Work and liquidity in this country have dried up and many government workers have not been paid for months in the country, which almost completely depends on foreign donations under the previous government.
More than 80 percent of those surveyed by saving children reported loss of income, with a little more than one third had lost all their household income.
Almost one third said they received less than half of what they had before the Taliban came to power.
The price surge caused by the economic crisis has left many families who are able to buy food, according to research, which says about 36 percent of families report that they buy food on the market on credit.
Nearly eight percent said they were asking for or relying on charity to feed their families, the research said.
Chris Nyamandi, saving the director of the children in Afghanistan, said that he had never seen anything like a desperate situation in this country.
We treat poor children every day that haven’t eaten anything except bread for months,” he said.
There is no shortage of food here – the market is full. But the children of starvation to death because their parents were unable to pay for food, “said Nyamandi too.
The government must find a way to open vital funds and do not free financial assets to prevent the crisis to spin further,” he added.
