Nepali laborers working in rice fields in Changu Narayan, near Bhaktapur, Nepal on June 25, 2022.
Rural folks working in rice fields in Changu Narayan, near Bhaktapur, Nepal on June 25, 2022.
Surendra Tamang is living with his brother in Kathmandu, Nepal while receiving dialysis.
Surendra Tamang receiving his thrice-weekly dialysis treatments in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Visitors waiting in the stairwells and hallways in a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal on June 27, 2022.
Nepali laborers working in rice fields in Kathmandu on June 30, 2022.
Mahendra Ranabhat, 29, poses on his bed in a rented home in Bhaktapur, Nepal on June 26, 2022.
Ranabhat is living in the Tanahun district in Nepal.
His father, Moti Ram Ranabhat, donated one of his kidneys to his eldest son, who worked in the Gulf for 9 years before contracting CKD.
TIME correspondent Aryn Baker interviews an anonymous worker activist at a cafe in Kathmandu, Nepal on June 26, 2022.
The activist worked in Qatar for years before coming back to Nepal.
Aerial view of rice fields in the hills of Nepal, on July 2, 2022.
Manju Devi Mandal, 38, holds a portrait of her husband, Kripal Mandal, in the village of Nagrain 9, in the Ghodhas District outside of Janakpur, Nepal on July 1, 2022.
Her husband died at age 40 of a heart attack in Qatar.
Her brother-in-law is named Manish Mandal, 34.
A street scene of car reflections taken at the nightly Hindu ceremony in the village of Nagrain 9, in the Ghodhas District outside of Janakpur, Nepal on July 1, 2022.
Nepali men sitting at a table in the village of Nagrain 9, in the Ghodhas District outside of Janakpur, Nepal on June 30, 2022.
In this village, like many of the agricultural lowlands of Nepal, 70% of the young men have worked in Qatar and other Gulf countries.
A Nepali man sits on a chair while it rains in the village of Nagrain 9, in the Ghodhas District outside of Janakpur, Nepal on July 1, 2022.
Nepali men on motorbikes hang out in the village of Nagrain 9, in the Ghodhas District outside of Janakpur, Nepal on June 30, 2022.
Indrajit Mandal, 22, holds an umbrella in the village of Nagrain 9, in the Ghodhas District outside of Janakpur, Nepal on July 1, 2022.
Mandal recently applied to work as an electrician in Qatar.
Indrajit Mandal, 22, works his family rice field in the village of Nagrain 9, in the Ghodhas District outside of Janakpur, Nepal on July 1, 2022.
The nightly Hindu ceremony in the village of Nagrain 9, in the Ghodhas District outside of Janakpur, Nepal on July 1, 2022.
The nightly Hindu ceremony in the village of Nagrain 9, in Ghodhas District outside of Janakpur, Nepal on July 1, 2022.
Nepali workers waiting at the airport to board a Qatar Airways flight from Kathmandu to Doha on July 4, 2022.
Aerial view of a rainbow in Kathmandu, Nepal on July 3, 2022.
Nepali workers on a Qatar Airways flight from Kathmandu to Doha on July 4, 2022.
A private security guard looks into a car window in Lusail City, Qatar on August 18, 2022.
Views of downtown Doha, Qatar with prominent World Cup billboards plastered on modern skyscrapers on August 16, 2022. Tall luxury buildings are under construction.
Foreign workers, mostly from Nepal, cleaning the old Souk in 120 degree heat in Doha, Qatar on August 16, 2022.
Workers put the finishing touches on the surrounding landscape of the main World Cup stadium in the Lusail area of Doha, Qatar on August 17, 2022.
Scenes of workers on a construction site in Doha, Qatar on August 17, 2022.
Views of downtown Doha, Qatar on August 17, 2022.
A worker drinks water at a construction site in Doha, Qatar on August 17, 2022.
Views of a modern skyscraper and a World Cup billboard in Doha, Qatar on August 16, 2022.
Views of the main World Cup stadium in the Lusail area of Doha, Qatar on August 17, 2022. The stadium has grow lights above the turf.
A worker puts finishing touches on the surrounding landscape of the main World Cup stadium in the Lusail area of Doha, Qatar on August 17, 2022.
Workers put finishing touches on the surrounding landscape of the main World Cup stadium in the Lusail area of Doha, Qatar on August 17, 2022.
Portrait of a worker at a construction site in Lusail City, Qatar on August 18, 2022.
Views of downtown Doha, Qatar on August 17, 2022.
Workers at a construction site in Lusail City, Qatar on August 18, 2022.
Workers at a construction site in Doha line up to get into buses to head to their sleeping quarters in order to rest during the mid-day heat on August 17, 2022.
A worker drinks water at a construction site in Lusail City, Qatar on August 18, 2022.
Construction workers in Lusail City, Qatar on August 18, 2022. Workers switch to cool indoor work when the temperature rises.