No help at home for women migrants who come back with babies
Kathmandu, Dec. 25 -- Benu returned home from Saudi Arabia on December 8 after a year and a half abroad. Her employer had ended her contract for her work as a housemaid and she had been forced to leave.
"I have committed a crime and I got punished," said the 25-year-old.
Her crime was that she got pregnant.
In April 2018, a local broker had helped prepare false documents for Benu so she could fly to Saudi Arabia for work via Mumbai.
"I was sent to work as a housemaid for a family of six," Benu told the Post. "I was happy to finally be able to help my family back home."
Benu was paid Rs 30,000 a month.
While in Saudi Arabia, she met a Nepali man and got into a relationship. When she told her boyfriend about her pregnancy, he disappea...
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