‘No one should suffer like me’: families of Qatar’s dead migrant workers left with nothing

Sitting with friends and four of her daughters, Laduwati holds a photo of her husband, Gangaram Mandal, who died in Qatar. Photograph: Pete Pattisson

It is hard to imagine a place more different to Qatar than the southern plains of Nepal.

Miles of fields covered in dazzling yellow mustard flowers are dotted with small villages. Cows and goats sit in front of houses mostly made of woven strips of bamboo and mud. Clothes are washed by hand, water pumped by foot and rice husks sifted by the wind.