Dad sells 2 year old because of poverty

Ackhtar Mohammad faced a decision of the type “life or death”. Let the whole family starve or sell his 2-year-old daughter. He's a farmer from the province of Badgis and lost all his wealth due to the longest drought in his life story.
Unable to cultivate agricultural crops to feed the family and deepen its debt, his family was initially forced to eat less frequently during the day. He had then sold the three sheep he owned. Finally, he was forced to make the most difficult decision of his life, to sell his daughter.

I was forced to sell my daughter. I had no money, and I had to feed my family. I made this decision because of hunger”, he said. Along with his family, he is living in a camp for the displaced, located in the western city of Herath, where colorful tents erected as if to disrupt the homogenous relief of the desert.

Mohammad sold his daughter for 150 thousand Afghans, worth only about $2000, while keeping the other child in his family, who is a 4-year-old boy. However, the girl is still staying with her biological family because her father has received only half the money, while she will give the girl to the buyer when she accepts the remainder of the payment, writes “Free Europe”, broadcast the Express.