March 04, 2009 | Project news
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A Pig or a Goat to Keep a Girl from Slavery: Olga Murray's Encore Story
By Terry Nagel
Olga Murray's remarkable encore journey story of saving Nepalese girls from being sold into slavery is reaching wider audiences, thanks to the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. The 83-year-old resident of Sausalito, Calif., has saved more than 4,300 young girls from being sold as domestic slaves in a most unusual way: by trading pigs or goats for their freedom.
Encore.org first wrote about Murray in July 2008, after a story about her by Meredith May in the San Francisco Chronicle. The Pulitzer Center awarded May a grant to travel to Nepal, enabling her to tell Murray's story in greater detail, in an article called "Olga's Girls," a slide show and a video. All may be viewed on SFGate.com.