The SF Chronicle featured a heart wrenching story this week about the sale of young girls into slavery in Nepal. Their families, desperately poor, accept the less than $100 offers of Kumlari brokers to place their daughters in the homes of wealthier families as servants. As you can imagine, the young girls are not only subject to exhaustive manual labor and despicable living conditions, but are often abused. Olga Murray from Sausalito has started an organization to help these girls and has made some real progress. She offers the families who are tempted to sell, or whose contracts are up for renewal, a pig or a goat in exchange for not selling their daughters, and she also funds the girls' education for the year. Check out the video and the article. It's hard for me to remember sometimes that conditions for women are still this bad! And Olga's creative work to change it is inspiring.
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