Charity frees Qarabagh family from debt bondage

KABUL group named “Afghan Sammon Tolana or Afghan Reform Society (ARS), has helped freed a family from debt bondage by paying the 100,000 loan in Kabul.

Hailing from Kabul’s Qarabagh district, Ghulam Siddique and his family had been working in an orchard in return for the money they had borrowed from the orchard’s owner.

Pajhwok Afghan News disclosed Siddique’s story last month. He described how his family including his children was forced into hard work. The family had borrowed 50,000 afghanis.

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The Pajhwok Afghan News report prompted the ARS to help free Siddique and his family from Haji Jalal, the owner of the orchard.

The ARS paid the 50,000 afghanis loan to Haji Jalal and gave another 50,000 afghanis to Siddique so he could support his family.

Ghulam Siddique thanked the ARS for the assistance and said his and his family lives were rescued.

Malali Shinwari, presidential advisor on social affairs and ARS head, thanked Pajhwok for humanitarian reporting and highlighting core issues of society. 

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