"Najibullah, 39, is a farmer. He sold his eight-year-old daughter Somaya for $3,000 (£1,560). She is engaged to a 22-year-old man from the village, Mohammed, who has also gone to Iran to earn the money to pay the bride price."
An 8 year old little girl to a 22 year old man!
Words fail me on the sickness of this.
An 8 year old little girl to a 22 year old man!
Words fail me on the sickness of this.
Not to worry,...He will wait untill She is 9
You must understand that we're dealing with desperate barbarians here. Faced with a failed harvest and depleted food supplies, Najibullah cannot think of any better way for the rest of his family to survive the winter than to sell his daughter to the highest bidder. Living as paupers engaged in marginal economic activity in a Third-World country, would you see any better alternative? Many of our ancestors and their contemporaries almost certainly faced similar dilemmas in 14th-century Christian Europe.
Afghanistan desperately needs a stronger economy capable of lifting people from the throes of starvation, but it first requires Christian missionaries to civilize the country and to develop an education system sufficient to enable Afghans to carve out their niche in the global economy. Farmers would benefit from some crop insurance program that provided sustenance in the event of severe drought or irrigation to mitigate the effects of drought on crops. But such economic instruments cannot stabilize a war-devastated economy, and Afghanistan has only begun to embark upon the long road to recovery.
Words fail me on the sickness of this.
I suppose you would rather see them starve.
I don't see a lot of aid coming in...
In Afghanistan, $3,000 has got to be a lot of money.