Twenty meters down the street he tips the contents of the bowl into the gutter. Three of the women rush after him and hover over the watery mess like blowflies, scooping out scraps to feed their families. A young Afghan boy makes paper flowers in a NGO-sponsored school for street children in Kabul. You're selling it because of the economy. Pride injured, the woman walks out with her dress in hand.
People are hungry, there are no jobs, they see no future.
Slowly Afghanistan is coming to a halt, cut off from most of the world and branded a pariah state by the United Nations for refusing to hand over the suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. After 20 years of war there is little left to build on, and people have to fend for themselves. Kabul has become a city of refugees where women outnumber men and children make up more than half the 2 million population. In the countryside, poverty and stagnation are also breeding discontent. But they haven't brought us jobs.