{"id":41001,"date":"2022-01-23T23:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/23\/ive-already-sold-my-daughters-now-my-kidney-winter-in-afghanistans-slums"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:00:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T14:00:23","slug":"ive-already-sold-my-daughters-now-my-kidney-winter-in-afghanistans-slums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41001","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve already sold my daughters; now, my kidney\u2019: winter in Afghanistan\u2019s slums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crushing poverty is forcing starving displaced people to make desperate choices<\/p>\n<p>The temperature is dropping to below zero in western Afghanistan and Delaram Rahmati is struggling to find food for her eight children. <\/p>\n<p>Since leaving the family home in the country\u2019s Badghis province four years ago, the Rahmatis have been living in a mud hut with a plastic roof in one of Herat city\u2019s slums. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/30\/on-the-brink-drought-and-politics-leave-afghans-fighting-famine\">Drought made their village unliveable<\/a> and the land unworkable. Like an estimated 3.5 million Afghans who have been forced to leave their homes, the Rahmatis now live in a neighbourhood for internally displaced people (IDP).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/23\/ive-already-sold-my-daughters-now-my-kidney-winter-in-afghanistans-slums\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crushing poverty is forcing starving displaced people to make desperate choicesThe temperature is dropping to below zero in western Afghanistan and Delaram Rahmati is struggling to find food for her eight children. Since leaving the family home in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2829,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,247,59,498,958,552,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-global-development","category-internally-displaced-people","category-poverty","category-social-exclusion","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41002,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41001\/revisions\/41002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}