Due to the poverty barrier, children working on bricks kilns are not able to get education
What starts off as a small loan ends up trapping generations into bonded labor?” In Pakistan about 4–5 million people are working on bricks kilns. Brickmaking is one of the important industries related to construction in Pakistan. According to international studies about 10 million people are attached to this industry either directly or in-directly. It is also studied that around 2 million children also work for 14 hours per day on these kilns. These children are deprived of their basic human rights (education) and social security.
The people living in the slums of brick kilns are deprived of their basic human rights. They are forced to work at these kilns like slaves.
There is no law for their protection. Owners of kilns treat them like their personal slaves. They are threatened by their owners with severe consequences, if they demand raise in their daily wages.
When our church team asked them why they don’t get their children admission in schools? Brick kilns people told us;
We are poor people and forced to work for 14 to 18 hours per day. Despite of all this hard work we get only 1200 per day. Our family is large and if we put our children in schools we would not be able to earn living for our families. We are abounded labor and trapped into a perpetual cycle of debt that passed into our family from our parents.
So, we experienced that the main reason is poverty due to which they are not able to get their children admission in schools. International Labor Organization estimates that over 12 million children work as child laborers. Generally, their families are large and they have to work together to get the going easier for them. Children help their parents in back-breaking task of carrying clay and bricks. These people don’t know how to read and write. This makes them an easy target for trafficking, exploitation and abuse. we have worked for these people to raise their voices for basic human rights. The owners of these bricks kilns have strong political relationships and police is not able to take serious steps against this mafia. We have taken a solution to this problem was the established of The Bread of Life Education Centers for the children working on these kilns. Through these schools children would be able to get education at their ease. Our team is dedicated to eliminating the poverty barrier to education by setting up open education centers, providing children from underprivileged areas with access to quality education. We have launched initiatives to establish five brick kiln schools, motivated by the urgent need identified in these communities.
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