Every January, 83-year-old Olga Murray of northern California goes to southwestern Nepal for the annual Maghe Sankranti winter festival. That's where she can find impoverished Tharu farmers selling their daughters to higher caste families to work as domestic slaves.
Meredith May receives Excellence in Journalism Award
Published September 21, 2009
Meredith May received a 2009 Excellence in Journalism Award in the feature writing category from the Society for Professional Journalists for "Saving Nepal's Indentured Girls," which SPJ described as "a story that uses an inspiring local angle to illuminate the international human rights issue of kamlari, the Nepalese practice of bonded servitude."
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