So Pam, tell us what is it like in Afghanistan right now, especially for people who are living

in places like Kabul?

For many, many people, it's really a dire situation.

I mean, really hand to mouth and day to day.

And because so many funds have been cut off, so much aid has been cut off, because the

winter is so harsh and because money is so scarce, many millions of Afghans are reduced

to living really at the margin of survival.

Pamela Constable is a long-time foreign correspondent for the post.

For the past few weeks, she's been reporting from Afghanistan on the humanitarian crisis

unfolding there.

You know, I visited a number of very poor homes in communities, different parts of Kabul

in recent weeks.

And, you know, you'd go into someone's kitchen and there'd be like, you know, two potatoes

and an onion.

And that was it.

And then you'd realize that it's very cold, even though everybody's sitting around a stove

because there's nothing in it.

There's no wood, there's no coal, there's no money to buy it.

As winter continues, so many families in Kabul especially are experiencing the same things.

People, many families that I talk to, send out their children to scavenge in the streets

for old pieces of wood, old pieces of coal and even worse, plastic.

People use plastic to burn at night to keep warm and it's extremely toxic, as I'm sure

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