It will also be tricky to find builders who can work well at such altitudes (few people can do hard manual labour where the air is so thin).

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Father-of-three, Nagina Manjhi, tells me that things are now even worse than before: "We used to work in the fields or do other manual labour and somehow manage to make a living, " he explains.

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The laundries were Catholic-run workhouses that operated in Ireland and where girls and women had to do unpaid, manual labour.

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