In Ghor province (one of Afghanistan's most impoverished and remote regions), desperate fathers gather at dawn in dusty squares hoping for a day's work that may never come, as the country faces an unprecedented hunger emergency. The United Nations estimates that 4.7 million Afghans — more than one-tenth of the population — are on the brink of famine, with three in four people unable to meet basic needs. The crisis has grown so severe that some parents, including one father in Chaghcharan who wept as he described the decision, say they are prepared to sell their daughters to feed remaining children, while at least one man has already sold his five-year-old daughter to cover her medical bills. Massive cuts in international aid — down roughly 70 percent compared to 2024 figures, following near-total withdrawal of US funding and significant reductions by the UK and others — combined with a severe drought affecting more than half the country's provinces, have stripped millions of Afghans of the food assistance they previously depended on. Informal counts of graves in local cemeteries suggest child deaths are running at roughly twice the rate of adult deaths, with malnutrition the leading cause, though no official records are kept.