Kalam Niso with her young children Noori, Khalil and Nazifa. Three months earlier five of Kalam Niso's sons had left the village to look for work elsewhere. When they didn't return their father left as well. She has no food to feed her family and she doesn't have any news on the whereabouts of her sons and husband. "Only God knows if they will come back", she said. In her garden there was the only fruit tree of the entire village. "Apricots have a short season, after that we won't have anything left to eat. My children are hungry but I don't even have a goat or a sheep to slaughter. Nobody can help us. Even the rich merchants of the village have gone poor because of the drought", said Kalam Niso.