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Within hours of landing in Bangkok from Nairobi last December to start a job as a customer service agent, Duncan Okindo knew something was wrong. The 26-year-old had sold his cattle, borrowed money from friends and used his savings to pay a recruitment agency 200,000 Kenyan shillings (1,150).

I felt it would be good to go outside [the country] and look for money to take care of my family," says Okindo. I'd tried hard to get a job in Kenya, but life here had pushed me to the wall."