Nepal: Meet the Kamlaris
April 14, 2009
Hosted by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
In this video you will meet former indentured servants from Nepal. You can post your questions and answer their questions below.
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Olga’s Girls: Project Overview and Reporting
Do you know whether you have Kamlaris in your country or not?
Your country is rich, that’s why you have got good education but Nepal is very poor, therefore we have many Kamlaris here. Being a student, how can you help for Kamlari girls of Nepal?
we have to get the adults involved.no one person is going to be able to do it by themselves
I think it is really hard for young people to really make a diffrence because many people dont think that our opinion matters. Our best resource would probally be through our parents and other adult figures to help donate to funds that want to help Kamlaris
What legal provision are there in your country against the people who use child labor?
in our country the minimum age to work is 16 but you can also work if you are 15 but you need a workers permit. but with this you can only work a certain number of hours during a week.
Is there a practice of sending children by their own parents to work as child laborers in your country?
Yes, but it is more supervised and the child has to be at least 14 years old wit a family that has a low income. This practice also includes legal documentation
what can the Nepal legal system do to stop this from happening? these young girls are their future.
How much money is Nepal’s government spending on efforts to educate women on ways to control the number of childern she and her husband have?
In the video that is on the website you talk of such harsh treatment, were your families ever awear of what was going on? And if so, were there anything that they could have done?
When you were able to leave and go back home, how did your parents react?