Afghanistan II
Daily Struggle, October 2009
As US President Barack Obama considers whether to send more troops to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan, millions of Afghans are still fighting a daily battle to survive. Some are lucky enough to receive aid; but for many, uprooted or widowed by the ongoing war, their situations remain dire.
Sakidada, 70 years old and from the Hazari Region of Afghanistan, poses for a photograph in his house in Sector 3, Kabul, Afghanistan on the 29th September, 2009.
Sakidada, 70 years old and from the Hazari Region of Afghanistan, chops tomatoes for him and his wife, who is ill, at his house in Sector 3, Kabul, Afghanistan on the 29th September, 2009. He is taking part in a work for Cash program that is being run by Care International to build drainages systems, and gives the 800 participants a cash income from which they can buy food.- A group of woman take a break after handing out water to workman who are digging a drainage channel as part of a work for cash program that is being run by Care International, in Sector 3, Kabul, Afghanistan on the 29th September, 2009. The program has given 600 men and 200 women who have not other means of income jobs, so they are now able to buy their own food.
- Mallalei Nafesa and her youngest daughter walk down the hill from their house in Sector 3, Kabul, Afghanistan on the 29th September, 2009. Malalei's husband has a mental problem after being between by police in Dubai when he went to find work, and she now works on a Work for Cash program run by Care International to provide food for her and her four children.
- Sakina, plays with one of her six children at their home in District 7 of Kabul, Afghanistan, on the 30th September, 2009. Sakina's husband has developed a mental problem and uses opium, spending any money he earns on this drug, like thousands of other men throughout Afghanistan. Sakina struggles to feed her children and has no idea where today's meal will come from.
- Sakina, plays with one of her six children at their home in District 7 of Kabul, Afghanistan, on the 30th September, 2009. Sakina's husband has developed a mental problem and uses opium, spending any money he earns on this drug, like thousands of other men throughout Afghanistan. Sakina struggles to feed her children and has no idea where today's meal will come from.
- Sakina, a 30 year old woman who has six children whom she has to support cries as she tells her story at her home in District 7 of Kabul, Afghanistan, on the 30th September, 2009.Sakina's husband has developed a mental problem and uses opium, spending any money he earns on this drug, like thousands of other men throughout Afghanistan. Sakina struggles to feed her children and has no idea where today's meal will come from.
- Sayed Bibi, who was widowed when her husband was killed as they fled from Taliban attacks in Shamoli ten years ago, sews Burka's to make money with her two daughters at their home in District 7 of Kabul, Afghanistan, on the 30th September, 2009. Thousands of women like Sayed have been widowed throughout Afghanistan and many are now struggling to feed their families as they have no means of income. in District 7 of Kabul, Afghanistan, on the 30th September, 2009.
- Halima and her son milk their only cow in Sector 7, Kabul, Afghanistan on the 1st October, 2009. Like thousands of other women throughout Afghanistan. Halima is a widow and she struggles to find enough food everyday to feed her six children. As part of a program run by CARE international she has been given a cow from which she is now able to sell milk to help her buy food.
- Halima, her children and other women sit outside their houses that they share in Sector 7, Kabul, Afghanistan on the 1st October, 2009. Like thousands of other women throughout Afghanistan Halima is a widow and she struggles to find enough food everyday to feed her six children.
- A young girls stands in an alleyway behind her brother who is holding a kite in Sector 7 of Kabul Afghanistan on the 1st October, 2009. Despite the huge amounts of aid that have flooded into Afghanistan since 2001 millions of people still live beneath the poverty line, and in areas like this one water borne illnesses are rife as people are still exposed to open drainage systems.
- An Afghan woman who has returned from living in a refugee camp in Pakistan is photographed in her make shift shelter that she is living in with her children on the outskirts of Kabul Afghanistan on the 4th October, 2009.in of Kabul Afghanistan on the 4th October, 2009. Thousands of people remain dependent on International Aid, and USAID has just increased its aid budget to 2.6 Billion US Dollars for the coming year.
- An Afghan woman who has returned from living in a refugee camp in Pakistan is photographed in her make shift shelter that she is living in with her children on the outskirts of Kabul Afghanistan on the 4th October, 2009.in of Kabul Afghanistan on the 4th October, 2009. Thousands of people remain dependent on International Aid, and USAID has just increased its aid budget to 2.6 Billion US Dollars for the coming year.
- An elderly woman holds up the identity document of her husband who disappeared last year near their home in Sector 3, Kabul, Afghanistan on the 29th September, 2009. Thousands of people go missing each year in Afghanistan - some are kidnapped and families are unable to afford to pay the ransom, and others are shot in tribal disputes.
- Simagul, a 30 year old woman from Loger, and 8 months pregnant with her 12th child needs bread in her home in District 7 of Kabul, Afghanistan, on the 30th September, 2009. Her husband is a part time truck driver and makes around four US dollars a day when he has work, but beats her and her children because he is often high on opium.
