Posted on 04/24/2005 1:23:45 PM PDT by kingattax
DHAKA (Reuters) - 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 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
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...and after selling an eye, would only see him half as often.
I fail to see the vitreous humor.
That was cornea.
LOL.
They would be two of a kind.
haha..theres a million puns here
Can a doctor transplant an eye?
Eye never heard of that being done.
Retina eye would be cheaper than buying one.
she might do better if she auctioned a breast on eBay
I really think she'll be successful in selling this, but then, I'm an optometrist.
Lots of jokes to tell but it's really very sad that a woman is reduced to selling body parts to take care of her child. Some of these foreign Countries need to start taking care of these abandoned women and children.
i dont know if Bangladesh has it in their budget to provide for untold millions of starving women and children...somehow i doubt it....it is extremely sad
I've always thought that they need to take sex 'education classes' since they don't seem to understand how babies are made./semi sarcasm
What, she can't take one of our telemarketing jobs?
you know.....that's an excellent question
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