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she said. “I thought: ‘I can earn, I’m healthy.’ I went so I could educate the children. I returned with nothing.”
Ms Tamang never received a penny. Instead she became one of thousands of people trafficked from Nepal and elsewhere to the rich nations of the Gulf.In case after case relatively unsophisticated men and women from poor backgrounds are persuaded to make the trip, only to take on large and mysterious debts and then find themselves at the mercy of the employers who sponsor their visas.It is like 21st century slavery,” says Manju Gurung, a founding member of Pourakhi, an organisation of returning Nepali women. “Once you enter your sponsor’s house, all passports and ID will be confiscated in the name of protection. The problems will start from there.”

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