Lives behind the statistics

Ghal Singh Rai

Nepal

At just 20, Ghal Singh Rai’s prospects looked good. He had just secured a job as a cleaner at a camp for workers building one of Qatar’s new World Cup stadiums.

 

His family had paid around £935 to recruitment agents to get him to Qatar but barely a week after arriving, Rai took his own life. His father, Saarki Bahadur Rai, said he had sensed something was wrong and had tried desperately to reassure his son. “I tried time and again to convince him not to worry. We told him: come home if you cannot work there.”

 

Udwab Bhattarai in Kathmandu

Lives behind the statistics

Ghal Singh Rai

Nepal

At just 20, Ghal Singh Rai’s prospects looked good. He had just secured a job as a cleaner at a camp for workers building one of Qatar’s new World Cup stadiums.

 

His family had paid around £935 to recruitment agents to get him to Qatar but barely a week after arriving, Rai took his own life. His father, Saarki Bahadur Rai, said he had sensed something was wrong and had tried desperately to reassure his son. “I tried time and again to convince him not to worry. We told him: come home if you cannot work there.”

 

Udwab Bhattarai in Kathmandu