Jeevan, a Nepalese worker, took out a high-interest loan worth $1,400 to secure a job in booming Qatar, after struggling to find employment in his native county.
He paid a recruitment agent who found the 27-year-old a position among the foreign labourers working on the infrastructure for this month’s Fifa World Cup. But a quarter of the way through a two-year contract offering $275 a month, he was told to leave Qatar and go home.