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5/9/08

Daughters for sale

One of the innovative program related with modern day slavery...a piglet or a goat for a daughter....its really innovative and practical approach to deal with poverty.
Watch the documentary-Here
(taken from pbs.org/now)
clipped from www.pbs.org

Daughters for Sale


An innovative program in Nepal is helping to free young girls that live as modern day slaves.


Unable to make ends meet, many families in western Nepal have been forced to sell their daughters, some as young as six, to work far from home as bonded servants in private homes. With living conditions entirely at the discretion of their employers, these girls seldom attend school and are sometimes forced into prostitution.

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