Aakriti Thapar/BBC The graves of Ghulam and Nazo's boys Sheidaee'Three million children in peril'There are days the couple go without food. "We started the year with the highest increase in child malnutrition ever recorded in Afghanistan. The soaring of the malnutrition is placing the lives of more than three million children in peril." The closure of food assistance to communities like those in Sheidaee and in other parts of Afghanistan has meant that more children are being pushed into severe acute malnutrition. In the malnutrition ward of the Badakhshan regional hospital in the north-east, there were 26 children in 12 beds.