But things did come up to expectations. A year later, Pavitra, 40, of Lekhparajul village in Surkhet district, telephoned her father to say she had been detained by the family she was working for in the alien land. [break]
"I have lost my appetite and cannot sleep ever since she called me," says her father. The family lost contact with Pavitra after she left for Kuwait where she was supposed to work as a domestic help. A few days back, she suddenly telephoned her father to inform him that she had been detained and ask for his help.
"They have not allowed me to go out of the house. I am calling you stealthily from the cell phone of a boy in the same house," she told her father. She also said that her employer has not paid her for her work.
The old man tried his best to rescue his daughter, but to no avail. "I filed an application at Maiti Nepal (the NGO) and told the story to human rights activists, but to no avail," he said.
Local rights organizations have found out the name of the person who facilitated Pavitra´s placement overseas, but failed to trace him. Rabina Acharya of Latikoili and Komala Lama of Kathmandu had sent her to Kuwait.
As there has been no contact with either of them, the family doesn´t know where exactly in Kuwait Pavitra is working. She had once telephoned one Moti Prasad Sharma of the same village who is also in Kuwait to tell him about her plight. However, Sharma also does not know where exactly Pavitra is.
Her husband is physically challenged and her two sons, Bikas, 17, and Kamal, 12, have left school to work as laborers.
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