Pigs save girls from slavery in Nepal

A program in Nepal keeps families from selling their daughters into indentured slavery by giving them piglets to raise. From the story in the Christian Science Monitor:

Since 2001, NYOF has been offering local fathers a piglet in exchange for a promise to keep their daughters at home and in school for the year. There is an economic advantage: A piglet fed on table scraps can net a family $100 at auction by year's end [A girl's average annual wage is $50]. Since the piglet program began, more than 1,600 girls have been spared from bonded labor, including 500 this year.

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