Nasrine's Story
Nasrine Amadullah says she is about 30 year old.
She has seven children. The youngest is seven and the oldest is about 13. Her husband was taken away by the Taliban seven years ago, but she still hopes for his return. She does not say that he is dead, just that he is missing.
The Widows Garden has helped Nasrine learn to grow vegetables and herbs that she sells along with the chutney that she makes. With the money she earns, she is able to buy flour to make bread and the other things that she needs from the market. Because she has such a big family, she has trouble feeding all her children so she sends her 10 year old twin sons to the Allahoddin Orphanage.
In Afghanistan, a child without a father is considered an orphan, so her twins live at the orphanage most of the time. Nasrine says that at the orphanage her sons get to go to school and they get better food than she can give them at home. Every two weeks she brings her sons home for the weekend.
She dreams of having a shop when her boys get bigger. That way she could make things for the shop and her family would have a place to work.
October
1, 2009
