The girls were expected to fulfill numerous domestic responsibilities that were often very taxing or even dangerous.[2] The expectations of domestic work often prevented the girls and young women from attending school while in the camps, and even when allowed to attend, their housework often kept them behind their male classmates, who had time to study. In this way, girls were prevented from earning a formidable education, further entrenching them in their inability to sustain themselves. Many girls were physically and/or sexually abused by their host families, raped by other refugees during activities such as fetching water or food rations, and occasionally, even sold as brides for profit.[21] In each of these examples, the girls were taken in only as a potential profit or benefit to the family.