{"id":3993,"date":"2023-09-24T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T09:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candlelightpakistan.org\/light\/?page_id=3993"},"modified":"2023-09-26T14:24:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:24:29","slug":"brick-workers-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/candlelightpakistan.org\/light\/brick-workers-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Workers in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3993\" class=\"elementor elementor-3993\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t        <section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a4bd8a0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a4bd8a0\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n            \n                        <div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default \">\n                    <div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c6ebb9e\" data-id=\"c6ebb9e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n            <div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n                        \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18d8bd2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-jeena-advanced-heading\" data-id=\"18d8bd2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"jeena-advanced-heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t        <div class=\"jeena-advanced-heading\">\r\n                        <div class=\"subheading\">\r\n                <span >Brick Workers in Pakistan<\/span>            <\/div>\r\n                        <h3 class=\"main-heading\"><span class=\"main-text\">Debt slavery of <br>brick kilns in Pakistan<\/span><\/h3>        <\/div>\r\n        \t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f73b3b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4f73b3b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.16.0 - 14-09-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Facing brutal working conditions, including temperatures that can reach upward of 120 degrees Fahrenheit, around 150 families work every day to hand over their quota of 1,500 bricks to the kiln owners. Many of these families are stuck in debt bondage and work to repay their loans. Many of these families are stuck in debt bondage and work to repay their loans. They make $1.50 a day and are told another $1.50 goes toward their debt. However, as there are no set contracts or conditions to these debt agreements, the families often don&#8217;t know how much money they owe, how much interest is being added onto their debts, or how much longer they will have to continue to work before the debts are repaid. Earning low wages, they have to keep borrowing money from the wealthy owners just to survive.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                <div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-17a52ac\" data-id=\"17a52ac\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n            <div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n                        \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42dd092 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"42dd092\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.16.0 - 14-09-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/candlelightpakistan.org\/light\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/200801173.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-4009\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightpakistan.org\/light\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/200801173.jpg 600w, https:\/\/candlelightpakistan.org\/light\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/200801173-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n                <section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-57131ef elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"57131ef\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n            \n                        <div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default \">\n                    <div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e12b74c\" data-id=\"e12b74c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n            <div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n                        \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ff4fac6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"ff4fac6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"858\" src=\"https:\/\/candlelightpakistan.org\/light\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/brick-worker-kids-3a.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-4011\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightpakistan.org\/light\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/brick-worker-kids-3a.jpg 720w, https:\/\/candlelightpakistan.org\/light\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/brick-worker-kids-3a-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                <div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7e341bd\" data-id=\"7e341bd\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n            <div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n                        \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f29287e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f29287e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manzoor Masih 70, her son, his wife, and their 10-year-old child (In School going age) spend their days making bricks in Pakistan in sweltering heat, breathing in harmful brick dust in conditions amounting to modern slavery. Trapped by debts, families are often unable to leave the brick kilns. Javid, aged 10, knows no life outside of the mud pits and kilns. Two decades ago his family borrowed money from the owner of the brick kilns, and they now spend their days molding and firing bricks under the scorching sun to pay the debt. The brick kiln owner retains half of their earnings, but the family is never shown a balance and doesn\u2019t even know what they still owe. Unscrupulous industry<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Manzoor Masih family are four out of millions of Pakistanis who work in kilns just like these, similar to many other industries around the country making wealthy landowners even more successful whilst those who are most marginalized and with the fewest options for economic survival are at risk of becoming trapped in modern slavery.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The problem can be partly linked to the cultural caste system. Families considered to be of a lower caste are availed of only the least desirable jobs, face poor treatment in the workplace due to discrimination, and are faced with greater barriers to accessing their rights.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Javid\u2019s family are purposely kept in the dark about their loan balance and are made to work in dangerous, unsanitary, and inhumane conditions. Safety is of negligible concern. At the very same kiln, three workers burned alive when they fell into the blaze that is used to bake the bricks. These kilns add to 90% of the country\u2019s air pollution and 20% of kiln workers have chronic respiratory problems they are ignored by modern society because they don&#8217;t have any medical facilities even their Children do not go to school. because they can&#8217;t afford their School or Medical treatment expenses. And so they die working there. And thus they remain slaves to their masters.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n                <section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-918b6ff elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"918b6ff\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n            \n                        <div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default \">\n                    <div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b609028\" data-id=\"b609028\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n            <div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n                        \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f5820a3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f5820a3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Child labor<\/h3><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About a third of kiln workers are children in Pakistan, a country in which child labor is illegal. Bonded labor is also unconstitutional in Pakistan, however, it is believed that many of these wealthy kiln owners are politically connected and have been likened to operating like a \u201cmafia<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n                <section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e5d8c64 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e5d8c64\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n            \n                        <div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default \">\n                    <div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bd092aa\" data-id=\"bd092aa\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n            <div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n                        \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b8bde24 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b8bde24\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The process of making bricks<\/h3><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The process of making bricks is laborious and physically exhausting. First, one must accumulate enough dirt to mix with water. Then, the mud is kneaded until it becomes clay. Donkeys are used to transport nearly 5,000 bricks from the plots to the fire kiln every day. Workers stack the bricks in underground ovens where they bake for days, usually over a month. The kilns are estimated to reach nearly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The kilns are covered with sand and gaps are filled with wood. Kiln workers risk their lives with the threat of cave-ins. In July 2022, three workers died when they dropped into the blazing kiln. Once the bricks are fully prepared, construction sites use them for everything from building houses to supporting bridges and canals. So God gave us the burden to open the Schools for these bricks kilns worker\u2019s children who have lost all hope for their bright future and secular and religious educate them for a better future. Although we know that this will not be an easy task for us. But we need your prayers and support for all these great tasks.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                <div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2693f6b\" data-id=\"2693f6b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n            <div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n                        \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-046f66e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"046f66e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"816\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/candlelightpakistan.org\/light\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mobrick.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-4019\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightpakistan.org\/light\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mobrick.jpg 816w, https:\/\/candlelightpakistan.org\/light\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mobrick-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/candlelightpakistan.org\/light\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mobrick-768x530.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n        \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Workers in Pakistan Debt slavery of brick kilns in Pakistan Facing brutal working conditions, including temperatures that can reach upward of 120 degrees Fahrenheit, around 150 families work every day to hand over their quota of 1,500 bricks to the kiln owners. 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