Poor, Weak and Sold into Slavery at 5 Years Old

Desperate to feed their family, Ramesh Jaipal's parents sold him to a business in Dubai to help train and scrub camels for 10,000 Pakistani rupees a month. He was 5. "I deserved love, I deserved education and I deserved a family, but I was scrubbing camels and racing them in the scorching temperatures of 106 degrees," Jaipal told VOA. Because the United Nations was retrieving boys and girls like Jaipal from servitude and returning them home, he was able to go to...

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