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Kaeven
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 Posted: 04/21/05 - 18:51 Post subject: Desperate Bangladeshi mother puts eye on sale
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Desperate Bangladeshi mother puts eye on sale
No price set, but woman seeks funds to feed daughter
Reuters
Updated: 10:27 a.m. ET April 21, 2005
DHAKA - A Bangladeshi woman desperate for money after she was abandoned by her husband has offered to sell one of her eyes.
“I desperately looked for a job to live with my two-and-half-year-old daughter, Meem,” the woman, 26-year-old Shefali Begum, told Reuters on Thursday at her slum dwelling in Dhaka.
“But I could not find any ... and decided to sell one of my eyes. What do I do with both eyes while my daughter will die for want of milk and food?”
Bangladeshi men have been known to advertise their kidneys for sale to generate cash, but Shefali is the first woman in the country known to advertise an eye.
She did not set a price in a newspaper advertisement she placed, but said she hoped to get enough to set up business as a street vendor or toy seller.
Shefali last saw her husband 18 months ago.
“No one has contacted me yet. Maybe they didn’t believe me and thought I was making a sort of fun but I am serious,” she said.
Nearly half of Bangladesh’s more than 130 million people live in poverty, unable to get two meals a day. Abandoned or widowed mothers are at the bottom of the economic heap.
Bangladeshi law prohibits sale of human organ but allows donations to save lives, officials said. Donations outside a family often carried a price tag, they acknowledged.
Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.
© 2005 MSNBC.com
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7587440/
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Occulis
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Posted: 04/21/05 - 19:47 Post subject:
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"Eye of a Bangladesh Divorcee, -1cha, Sells for 5cp"
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wellspoken
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Posted: 04/22/05 - 18:27 Post subject:
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| Occulis wrote: | | "Eye of a Bangladesh Divorcee, -1cha, Sells for 5cp" |
haha good one.
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ATM Banana
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Posted: 04/22/05 - 19:04 Post subject:
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overpopulate india, please.
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