Birendranagar, April 5 -- year-old Yamuna Sunar, who had gone abroad in search of a better life for her family, was brought home three days ago after she passed away in Kuwait last month. Her brother, Gyanendra Sunar, received the body at Gautam Buddha International Airport in Bhairahawa.

Gyanendra first learned of Yamuna's death on March 6, when a member of the household where she was working as a domestic, called from Kuwait. The news left the family in grief. Yamuna had returned to Kuwait for foreign employment only last September.

At first, Gyanendra could not bring himself to tell her two daughters (nieces), who had been counting the days for their mother's return and their father's arrival from Malaysia, where he is currently empl...