Years ago, Murray discovered a shocking fact in a region in Nepal that poor farmers sold their daughters as slaves to support families at a price of $35 to $75. The families said they had no choice but to sell their daughters to feed the rest of their families.
Murray decided to save the girls. She knew that the price of pork was high there. And a fully-grown pig could sell at the same price as a young girl at the market. So in 1989, she began going door to door visiting poor farmers. She said she would give them free piglets if they keep their daughters at home. By raising the piglets to fully-grown pigs, the farmers were able to sell the animals rather than their daughters. In addition, she also paid for the girls’ education and gave two liters of coal oil each month to people living in areas without electricity.
In the first year, 32 out of the 37 families she visited agreed to Murray’s program. In the 19 years, Murray did what she had said every year to poor farmers and the practice of selling girls as slaves has almost completely disappeared. More than 3,000 girls were able to stay at home with their families.
Thanks to their education, many of these girls are doing very well. They fought against this practice and have tried their best to keep their younger sisters free. ”They promise that their little sisters will never go through what they nearly had to,” said Murray.
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