Afghanistan's new poor line up for aid to survive as food crisis bites

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Afghanistan's new poor line up for aid to survive as food crisis bites
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Two long lines -- one of men, another of women -- wind around a World Food Programme (WFP) aid distribution site in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in the heat of the mid-morning sun.

Kabul, Afghanistan

Many of the people waiting for support in Khwaja Rawash, a middle-class neighborhood near the Kabul International Airport airport, are Afghanistan's new poor. They used to have decent jobs; now they lean on international aid to survive. The 3,800 Afghanis they receive from the WFP will help them make it through the month.It's calmer than it was on the first day of handouts this month in this district, Khalid Ahmadzai, a WFP coordinating partner at the site, tells CNN.

'We feel suffocated': Afghan women open up about life under the Taliban 04:48Azima had never been out of work until a Taliban decree shuttered girls' secondary schools. She now teaches primary school classes to try and make ends meet -- but her salary hasn't yet been paid."I do work," she says."My students were high school students in the 11th and 12th grade. They are on vacation at the moment so I'm teaching primary school classes.

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