and a little piggie it shall be
A little piglet makes a big difference
In Nepal, families promise not to let their daughters become indentured servants in exchange for a free pig.
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By Louisa Kasdon Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor DANG, NEPAL – A parade of young Nepalese girls, about 900 strong, in blue school uniforms or long swirling shirts marched through the village square in Dang Valley earlier this year. They chanted and held banners that said: "Let's send our girls to school!" and "An end to bonded labor!"
The march was part of the Maghe Festival, a month-long event in January when families in this western valley look forward to warmer weather and family reunions....
.....Until a few years ago, the square was filled with fathers negotiating with city labor contractors for their daughters to work as kamlaris for the coming year. A girl's average annual wage: $50. The money would be sent home to support the family's remaining children. But this annual custom has started to change. Pressure to stop the practice of indenturing daughters has come from two sources: hundreds of former kamlaris and the Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation (NYOF), a Nepali-American nonprofit group...........
NOT A SERVANT: Rama Chandari, age 12, had been working as a bonded laborer for two years far away from her home village in Dang valley. Her father had planned to bond her again, but was allowed to stay home after the family received a pig to raise and sell. ALISON WRIGHT
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4 comments:
How sad that the only way people will not send their children into slavery is to receive a pig. What is this world coming to when the price of a human is a pig? That makes me sad.
i'm afraid this is only the tip of the iceberg. there are stories that are much worse
oy vey ... now that's a hard life ...
not much i can add to that rory, yes it is a hard life. we have NO idea
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