Facing hunger, some desperate Afghans are selling their kidneys for money

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Five months into Taliban rule, Afghans tell Insider they've donated a kidney or dangerous amounts of blood out of desperation to feed their families.

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$308 million"to support vulnerable Afghans" in 2022. The Under-Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs at UNOCHA, Martin Griffiths, said the money is needed to"stave off wide-spread hunger, disease, malnutrition and ultimately death."

For men who could not find work in Herat city – in western Afghanistan – or across the border in Iran, selling a kidney became a last, desperate option for men to support their families, earning in excess of $3,000 , some of those who were interviewed said. had been sold illegally every year in province of Herat.

But after the Taliban took over the city on August 14 – one day before they claimed Kabul – everything changed. Within weeks, the city that was once a hub for local and global business, became a centre for the evacuation of vulnerable Afghans. Initially, Ali Reza did like millions of Afghans before him, and turned to day labour as a source of income in hard times. But with the United Nations warning that male unemployment may double to

"The nurses kept saying they don't have enough O donors, so I just kept going back to put food on the table," he said.

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So sad, we often use the term selling a kidney to make expensive purchases yet there it is to keep themselves alive (barely)

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