KABUL, 05 November 2021, (TON): Following the regime change in Afghanistan, poverty has risen to the point where dozens of women line up in front of bakeries in capital Kabul daily to beg for bread and keep their children alive.

Local media correspondent in various parts of the city conducted interviews with a number of bakery owners and women who stand in front of bakeries, all of whom complained of poverty and misery and said that the only way to survive is begging.

To save our children, we have no choice but to line up in front of bakeries. Sepna, a resident of CharahiQambar area of Kabul, is a widow who begs daily for survival of her six children.

“I beg every day, but often no one gives me money. I stay in front of bakery until late evening so someone donate me some bread because my children stay hungry during night, I do it due to my obligation.”

She said “my husband was a policeman who had died. I used to work in the house of a businessman who, after the fall of the previous government, fled Afghanistan.”

Sepna is not the only one standing in front of the bakery to save her children, several other women are sitting next to her, waiting for someone to buy bread for them.

She said “Banafshah, a resident of Kota-i-Sangi area of Kabul, wearing a black chador, was sitting in front of a bakery in the second police district of Kabul with other poor women to find some bread to feed her children.”

She said “I come here before 5pm and stay here until 7pm until I get 10 bread then I go home.