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Abdul Rashid Azimi is facing an unbearable decision. He says he is willing to sell one of his seven-year-old twin daughters for marriage or domestic work. Doing so, he says, will provide enough money to feed his other children for four years. "It breaks my heart, but it's the only way," he says. In Afghanistan, three in four people cannot meet their basic needs, according to the UN. Unemployment is rife, healthcare struggling and aid is a fraction of what it was. Saeed Ahmad was forced to make a similar choice. He tells us the only way he could afford lifesaving treatment for his five-year-old daughter was to sell her to a relative. "If I had money, I would never have taken this decision," he says. "But... what if she dies without the surgery? This way at least she will be alive."
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