Zainab learned how to raise chickens and run an egg business with training and support from CARE.
Zainab learned how to raise chickens and run an egg business with training and support from CARE.
The economic impact of coronavirus: People are going hungry
Zainab, 24, lives with her husband and two children in a settlement for internally displaced people in Kabul, Afghanistan. The couple was getting by on his work as a day labourer and her work raising chickens and selling eggs until coronavirus arrived. She says:
I can’t praise our life before the coronavirus, but we were doing well for ourselves. My husband and I were working to provide a good life to our son and then expecting a new child.
When the pandemic hit, people panicked. Prices soared, and food became unaffordable for millions. Zainab says:
Afghanistan was already in the throes of a serious food crisis brought on by ongoing conflict, extreme weather, and high food prices. Coronavirus compounded the already dire situation. Now more than 13 million people – 42% of the country’s population – are facing hunger.
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