AFGHAN CHILDREN URGENTLY NEED YOUR HELP
Decades of war has meant that every child in Afghanistan has grown up knowing fear and suffering. And now, their future looks desperate.
Half of the children in Afghanistan are in urgent need of humanitarian support - basics like food, shelter and medical supplies. One in 16 children die before their 5th birthday. And this year, hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee their homes. Yet we fear the situation is about to get catastrophically worse.
Hunger levels are rising, with increasing food prices and the combined effects of drought, the COVID-19 pandemic and disruption to aid efforts. And winter is on its way.
Kind Kiwis like you have been helping children in Afghanistan for over 40 years. Please don't stop now. We are providing vital items such as clothes for children, blankets, and household items to displaced families. But, as evacuations end and media attention risks moving on, Afghan children urgently need your help.
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Afghan children are on the brink of famine. Even before recent weeks, Afghanistan already had the second-highest number of people facing starvation in the world. An estimated 5.5 million Afghan children were already projected to face crisis levels of hunger.
What Is The Issue?
Give Young Children Growing Up In Slum Brothels A Chance For A Better Future.
Bangladesh’s largest slum brothel - just one of many in the region - is the size of a small city and houses over 1,500 women and 1,000 children.
These women and children live largely out of sight from mainstream society - facing exclusion from education, life-saving healthcare, and their communities. Needing to provide for their children, mothers who were likely sold or trafficked into the brothel to start with, find themselves unable to leave and forced to work to pay off debts.
Children live with their mothers in rooms smaller than most one-car garages. When their mothers bring their customers home, they hide under beds while their mothers are working or they are pushed into the alleyway to play. Customers will use them to run errands, like fetching alcohol or drugs, and in some cases, they are tasked with cleaning up after customers have left. Some will be groomed to be the future of the business like their mothers and grandmothers.
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Afghanistan:
Price Hikes Push Food Out Of Reach For Millions Of Children
Millions of children in Afghanistan could be pushed into severe hunger as a result of rising food prices, drought and displacement, Save the Children warned, after the UN reported the cost of wheat, rice, sugar and cooking oil has increased by more than 50% compared with pre-COVID-19 prices.
A survey of 630 newly displaced families in Kabul, carried out by Save the Children earlier this month, already found that all of the families had run up debts in order to buy food. Many families have been forced to sell their possessions, cut back on meals or send their children out to work in order to buy food.
Save the Children warned that people's ability to buy food is likely to be further limited by the lack of operating banks and ATMS, which prevents them from accessing their savings.
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We can not continue to let these children suffer.
We call for an end to the cycle of sexual exploitation of children in Bangladesh.
Your signature can make the difference in saving children. Petitions strongly assist our campaigning efforts to get local and international support to reduce child deaths, malnutrition, children out of school, child marriage and teen births in Afghanistan.
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Afsana’s Story:
Growing Up In Bangladesh’s Largest Brothel
10-year-old Afsana* lives in Bangladesh’s largest brothel.
She’s tired because her mother Tuli*, a sex worker, entertains clients in the next room while she and her six-year-old brother try to sleep. Drunken men and women roam the dirty alleyways all night looking for drugs and alcohol, which are readily available in the brothel’s lanes.
But just a few hundred metres down the train tracks is another world – the primary school where Afsana gets to be a child again.
Save the Children and a local partner organisation founded the school for children from the brothel in 1997. At that time, local schools wouldn’t accept the children of sex workers, meaning girls like Afsana were left uneducated and vulnerable to following their mothers into sex work.
In order to protect children, resume the delivery of life-saving services and see an end to the conflict, Save the Children is calling on world leaders to:
Ensure all parties to the conflict to abide by international humanitarian law and protect against the harm or loss of life to all civilian populations.
Support and enable the safe passage of refugees and access for humanitarian aid so they can reach those in need
Meet the rapidly rising humanitarian need of children and families in Afghanistan by providing immediate funding and ensuring that they have access to vital services such as healthcare, shelter and food support.
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We need to ensure that there are educational programmes and healthcare support available to help every last child find their way out - and give them an opportunity for a better future for themselves and their families.
This is why we need your signature to help us in our efforts as we work towards providing them with:
Access to education
Access to healthcare and counselling
Assistance with re-integrating them into their community
With your support and alongside our partners, you can protect children and save girls in Bangladesh from a future in sex slavery.
Take action today and pledge to give children from a chance to an education and a life free from sex slavery.
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Athena Rayburn, Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at Save the Children Afghanistan, said:
"The spike in prices will push food out of reach for many families, particularly those who have been displaced from their homes and are living on next to nothing. Conflict, drought and COVID-19 have already pushed millions of children into hunger and misery in Afghanistan - now they could be pushed even closer to the brink of famine."
Join the movement and take a stand for children in Afghanistan by giving them a new chance at life and break the cycle of poverty.
Every day Afsana goes to school, works hard and dreams of the day she and her mother can leave the brothel. Afsana is the second-best student in grade three and hopes to be a doctor when she grows up. “I want to be a doctor so that I can help my family if anything happens to them,” she says. But that dream will never become a reality without an education and the school Afsana attends is the place where children can get one.
Join the movement and take a stand for children in slum brothels by giving them a new chance at life through education and break the cycle of poverty.
*Names have been changed to protect identities.
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