Nepal earthquakes leave bitter legacy as children become quarry for traffickers | Sam Jones | Global development | The Guardian

Among the latter is 13-year-old Pharbati. In May, a few weeks after the earthquake that killed her mother, a Chinese man arrived in her village with a proposition for her grandmother: how would she feel if he took Pharbati and her two younger brothers to Kathmandu to resume their education?

 

The children's father had died some time before the earthquake struck, leaving their grandmother to make the decision. Perhaps feeling the stranger was the orphans' best chance, she told the children to go.

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