Saro Kumari Mandal
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In this Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016 photo, Saro Kumari Mandal, 26, whose husband died in his sleep as a migrant worker in Qatar, walks dressed in a white sari inside her home in Belhi village, Saptari district of Nepal. The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labor in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015. Yet the number of deaths among those workers has risen much faster in the same period. In total, over 5,000 workers from this small country have died working abroad since 2008, more than the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq War. Saro isn't allowed to remarry and will probably live on the edges of society, earning nothing more than some food to eat and a place to sleep. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this Tuesday, Dec 20, 2016 photo, Saro Kumari Mandal, 26, holds a cheque received as compensation from the Foreign Employment Promotion Board after her husband died as a migrant worker in Qatar, in Kathmandu, Nepal. She received $2,777 which she said she would use to open a small store in the village selling cookies and noodles, and also invest in a sewing machine. She wants to earn money for their son's education. "I want to make my son a teacher or a doctor when he grows up," she said. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this Tuesday, Dec 20, 2016 photo, Saro Kumari Mandal, 26, gives her fingerprint to receive compensation from the Foreign Employment Promotion Board after her husband died as a migrant worker in Qatar, in Kathmandu, Nepal. She received $2,777 which she said she would use to open a small store in the village selling cookies and noodles, and also invest in a sewing machine. She wants to earn money for their son's education. "I want to make my son a teacher or a doctor when he grows up," she said. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this photo taken on Monday, Dec 19, 2016, Saro Kumari Mandal, 26, sits with her son and her father-in-law at the Department of Foreign Employment to receive compensation after her husband died as a migrant worker in Qatar, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Eventually, with help, she received $2,777 from the Foreign Employment Promotion Board. She said she would use the money to open a small store in the village selling cookies and noodles, and also invest in a sewing machine. She wants to earn money for their son's education. "I want to make my son a teacher or a doctor when he grows up," she said. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
