Mutiullah and Aminullah get ready for school inside their room at the orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan October 12, 2021. Orphanages like this play an outsize role in Afghanistan, where tens of thousands of civilians have been killed in wars that have ravaged the country for more than 40 years. The lack of funding, which has hit charities, non-governmental organisations and ordinary Afghans since the hardline Islamist Taliban movement took back control of the country, is forcing orphanage director Ahmad Khalil Mayan (not pictured) into tough choices. "Before we were providing them twice a week fruit and twice a week meat, but we cut those items to just once a week or maybe not even (that much)". REUTERS/Jorge Silva SEARCH "KABUL ORPHANAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES