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Feb 3 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Sky’s @AlexCrawfordSky is in the village of Qala-e-Charkh in Afghanistan, where desperation and poverty has pushed more and more families to sell their young girls into early arranged marriages.
The children here are at the forefront of Afghanistan's humanitarian crisis. Their village is at the centre of one of the poorest districts, where up to 95% of people are in need of food or monetary assistance.
Agha Mohammad ‘married’ off his two-year-old baby girl Sitera for $2000 but the family returned her days after because she wouldn’t stop crying as she was still being breast-fed by her mother.
Hajira's was sold into marriage but the family that bought her returned her after she broke her leg during an earthquake in the village, saying they couldn’t afford to look after her.
In a country where there seems no limit to suffering, Sky News has seen a fresh level of desperation among the people of Badghis – Afghanistan's poorest province.

news.sky.com/story/afghanis…
The first part of Alex Crawford’s report has been shown to a number of MPs and a Member of the House of Lords, here’s what they had to say 👇

Watch the second part of the report here 👇

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