While the snow and rain may bring joy to some people, especially farmers, for many impoverished and unemployed citizens in the country, it has brought pain and hardship.

Some destitute citizens and laborers in Herat province told TOLOnews' reporter that due to unemployment, they cannot afford to heat their homes in the cold weather.

They said many children in families have fallen ill due to the cold weather.

Sadiq, a forty-year-old man living with his family in a cold mud house in the southern part of Herat city, said he is suffering from liver cancer and cannot afford to support his family of nine.

"I can't even clear the snow outside in this cold weather, life becomes very difficult, and my seven children are all living together in this house,” Sadiq told TOLOnews.

Some laborers who have ventured out of their homes in the cold weather in hopes of finding work complain about the lack of job opportunities.

"In this cold weather, I’m looking for job, but there is no work to be found,” Asadullah told TOLOnews.

"In the house where I live, even the sheep cannot sleep there. But I live there due to poverty,” said Habibullah, a resident of Herat.

Following four days of snowfall, the temperature in Herat has dropped. The cold weather has made life even more challenging for many destitute citizens in the province.