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Many child camel jockeys are seriously injured by falling off the camels.

The child jockeys live in camps ( called " ousbah ") near the racetracks and many are victims of abuse.

Hundreds of children have been rescued from camel farms in Oman, Qatar, and UAE and taken back to their original homes or kept in shelter homes.

Many however, are unable to identify their parents or home communities in South Asia or Sudan.

Some countries have issued penalties for those who trafficked child camel jockeys and ordered the owners responsibilities for returning the children back to their home countries.

However, they report that in many instances the children rescued were those who had been sold away by their own parents in exchange for money or a job abroad.

If they were returned, the children would again be sold for the same purposes.

Other children did not speak their native languages, or did not know how to live outside the camel farms.