One Woman's Struggle to Survive, 5 Years After the Taliban Took Kabul, in Photos
Sima supports her family by begging and salvaging waste as Taliban restrictions and scarce work leave many women with few legal ways to earn.
- Five years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, work is scarce in Kabul. Sima, who believes she is about 60, supports her extended family by begging and collecting bread, scrap, and recyclable waste.
- Begging and collecting waste are prohibited by the Taliban, creating significant risks for those caught. Sima sometimes waits until night to beg, hoping to remain less exposed on Kabul's streets.
- Diba, Sima's daughter, was detained while begging and held for three months. Two days after Diba was released, her breastfeeding baby died, and Sima now visits the child's grave.
- At home, everything gathered finds a purpose, with damaged tomatoes dried for later and salvaged materials saved as fuel. The cemetery serves as both a place of mourning and a site where Sima searches for discarded material.
- These images from The Associated Press document a life where almost nothing can be thrown away. Food is preserved for another season while salvaged items wait to be sold, illustrating the severe poverty facing families like Sima's.
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One woman's struggle to survive, 5 years after the Taliban took Kabul, in photos
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In the hills above Kabul, Sima searches for things that others have left behind. She walks through cemeteries looking for plastic, scrap and anything else that might have value. What can be sold is gathered and…
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