At first, Pramila Dangol’s body refused to burn. Her son inserted a heap of dry straw in the bed of wood and, soon, the fire grew so fierce that you could hardly hear her wailing relatives. Dangol was being cremated after her relatives finally received her body from Kuwait, where she had died while performing her duties as a domestic worker for a local family.
When Dangol, 38, left her family to work in Kuwait a year and half ago, she had promised to send money every few months. But the money came only once, and then came her body -- frozen for three months in a morgue in Kuwait -- in a casket at the international airport in Kathmandu. She had died in August while at work. The official cause of death was “inefficient oxygen,” according to the medical reports provided to her family, who found out about her death only in November.
Dangol was among hundreds of Nepalis who leave home every day to work in Persian Gulf states -- and among half-dozen dead bodies that return every week. Like the others before her, she'd left in hopes of earning a better salary than she could at home, and building better lives for her family.
But Dangol’s woes had begun at home, before she'd left for Kuwait. Abused by her husband who drank night and day, she secretly sought help from two men who ran a recruiting agency, locally referred to as a "manpower company," and collected enough money to buy her way abroad. When her aunt told her about the dangers and abuses migrant workers faced in the gulf, she remembers Dangol responding, “I’m getting beaten up here, and I’ll get beaten up there, so it really doesn’t matter.” Full story...
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When Dangol, 38, left her family to work in Kuwait a year and half ago, she had promised to send money every few months. But the money came only once, and then came her body -- frozen for three months in a morgue in Kuwait -- in a casket at the international airport in Kathmandu. She had died in August while at work. The official cause of death was “inefficient oxygen,” according to the medical reports provided to her family, who found out about her death only in November.
Dangol was among hundreds of Nepalis who leave home every day to work in Persian Gulf states -- and among half-dozen dead bodies that return every week. Like the others before her, she'd left in hopes of earning a better salary than she could at home, and building better lives for her family.
But Dangol’s woes had begun at home, before she'd left for Kuwait. Abused by her husband who drank night and day, she secretly sought help from two men who ran a recruiting agency, locally referred to as a "manpower company," and collected enough money to buy her way abroad. When her aunt told her about the dangers and abuses migrant workers faced in the gulf, she remembers Dangol responding, “I’m getting beaten up here, and I’ll get beaten up there, so it really doesn’t matter.” Full story...
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