In 2007 she gave the bank all her jewelry as a deposit for a loan and paid a Sri Lankan agency US$7,000 to organize her legal immigration and first employment in Israel as a carer for an elderly couple in Tel Aviv. Other migrants mortgage their homes or other property to raise the money.As a single mother, Cramer felt she had no other choice: “I do it because I want to pay for my children’s education.”Cramer said she works 24 hours a day but is paid for eight, at the minimum wage of 22 New Israeli Shekels ($5.70) per hour or $1,066 a month. “People here think we do everything for money. But what we really need is more freedom,” she told IRIN.She is one of about 55,000 migrant caregivers currently working in Israel, pushed into dependency, rights activists say, by controversial new legislation and by pressure to send money back home while repaying debts to recruitment agencies.