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Bagmati, Nepal

Jul 22, 2008

Woman's idea saves thousands of Nepalese girls

In the southern Dang district, rural Tharu farming families trapped in extreme poverty - earning less than a dollar a day - were making horrible sacrifices: selling their daughters as domestic slaves to wealthy ...

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