Tonight Eagle TV will be running a human interest story on our family. There is a huge problem of human trafficking here in Mongolia (as with most all 3rd world countries). About 4 years ago, after we had just arrived here, two girls ask to take their picture with our family, so we allowed them to. Then a few months later our language teachers and other Mongolians would tell us that they had ween our picture on television. Well, we had no idea what they were talking about, or how this could be. So it turns out that somehow a "nanny" agency got our picture and has been using it as an advertisement. They say we are a "european" family (everyone thinks we are German because of all the blonde) that has hired, and been very pleased with a Mongolian nanny.
ALL A LIE. So now the company has been contacted, confronted, and people are trying to get to the bottom of this lie and get them stopped. They are hiring girls under false pretenses and getting them out of the country to do, Lord only knows what. The people are so desperate to get out of the country, especially the young people. There is no industry here, very few good jobs, so the jobs that are available, are so heavily sought after there are many, many people seeking the same position. So, girls are being hired by this "nanny" service, that is operating under a complete lie, hoping for a chance to get ahead in life.
1 comment:
Oh Laura, how terrible!
I hope the story gets a lot of air and attention.
Jessica M.
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