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Nagina* (13) had to leave school and work due to the economic crisis in Afghanistan (Photo: Sacha Myers / Save the Children)

A year of Taliban — only aid is keeping Afghan kids alive

Samar* doesn't go to school as much anymore. Instead, the 11-year-old spends half his day sewing rugs with his 15-year-old brother Zalmay*.

The economic crisis in Afghanistan means his family, who had a good life before the Taliban regained power, now struggle to survive. Sending Samar to work was an agonising decision for his parents.

He said: "I was going to school before August 2021 and now I am not going to school [as often]. I don't like making rugs — it makes me so sad."

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Author Bio

Ylva Sperling is Europe director of Save the Children.

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