At 21 years old, Madina (not her real name) had her dream job: she was a journalist, her salary crucial to her family's life in Afghanistan. Then the Taliban came. Now, like so many other Afghan women, Madina cannot work and her family has lost her income -- just as Afghanistan's economy collapses and the United Nations predicts half its population could run out of food during the long, cold winter. Laila, whose name has also been changed, is her family's only earner.Before, she worked as a cleaner for an Afghan family, but they fled when the Taliban came. Now the 43-year-old begs in a Kabul market, where -- as the only woman among men -- she makes sure to wear a burqa to "protect my dignity, a little". +ATTENTION CLIENTS: Both women's names and voices in the edit have been changed to protect their identities+ IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES