How Millions Are Trapped In Modern-Day Slavery At Brick Kilns In Pakistan | Risky Business

Entire families in Pakistan work dangerous jobs at brick kilns to pay off snowballing debts to kiln owners. Workers don't have bank accounts and make so little they have to keep borrowing just to get by.

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How Millions Are Trapped In Modern-Day Slavery At Brick Kilns In Pakistan | Risky Business

[exes]

Making people work off their "debt" without telling them how much they owe and exploiting both their labour and illiteracy is absolutely heinous. I would be surprised if any family has ever actually paid off this "debt". Just a thin excuse for slavery.

[yesipan]

The fact the entire family is stuck doing this because of something like a hospital bill is heart breaking

[Darkest_Soul_]

The landlord is a criminal keeping this family as slaves over a debt that was probably paid 20 years ago. Let's hope this will bring more light to this story.

[GlamorousTitanic]

This ain’t “modern day slavery”, this is slavery. Period. The same kind of slavery that has existed for thousands of years.

[kieran]

"the family doesn't blame him" broke my heart, these people are so pure and are living a life of indentured slavery...

[Evelyn-vhex]

I remember doing a research project on modern day slavery, and the brick making slaves as a senior in high school. That was 12 years ago. It sucks knowing nothings changed.

[Vonwra]

For anyone wondering, an organization managed to sneak the family out of the brick yard, and moved them to a village they made, its a good few hours away from the yard, the kids are in school now and they are a lot happier now!

[damnfreakingsien]

This is the reason why literacy is so damn important.

It’s heartbreaking to see people getting exploited and abused like this and signing a debt that they don’t understand.

“Slavery is banned. What can we do to continue exploiting people and make them work for free?”

“Just make them sign a contract that they don’t understand, and then trap them in never ending debt, so they’ll work for us forever to pay off their debt!”

[Devlin]

The fact they aren’t angry with the debt collector makes me angry

[marako]

This is the kind of journalism that's really important, but sadly often ignored. Thank you, for this story and shining some light what's going on.

[primmiexoxo]

This is where half my family are from. Im humbled and glad my grandma came here in UK to save her 3 remaining sons, one who is my father. Love you grandma Fatima

[tristanedley]

It’s also the governments fault for not shutting this down, if it’s illegal they have the authority to do something but they don’t.

[naturalsoundsoftheworld]

I've been to Pakistan myself, and brick kilns are not just awful but often illegal. They cause insane smog in Lahore, and are often unregulated. Their debts are definitely paid off, and they're unfortunately trapped in slave conditions with no concept or moral to get out of it. It's crazy how human beings can convince other humans into slavery, using fear and psychological harassment. If only they knew they were free.

[Raymondinakangolhat]

When she said “I don’t dream and I have never dreamed” it broke my heart. It’s so disgusting that we as human beings can be so cruel to each other, to knowingly cause pain and misery to others.

[hassannaveed]

I’m from Pakistan(born and raised) and have became a CPA in America with my own tax business. When I was 6 in Pakistan my dream was to become a Khada Gari(guy who rides donkeys). Your surroundings really facilitate your success. It breaks my heart for these people…I wish I could free the millions of people suffering 😢 when the mother said “I don’t dream nor have I ever dreamed” I couldn’t hold myself back from crying 😢😢

[usernameyearsago]

16:46 it breaks my heart to see a 12 year old being completely hopeless

[thelostremainunfound]

What truly haunts me is that they have been lead to believe they deserve this. There is nothing that could justify this, and absolutely nothing that could lead me to believe that a child deserved to be born into paying back a debt that they did not create. Really, no debt should lead to this…

[rahallivex]

Not even a teenager and he already gave up hope for a better life. What's more devastating than this.

[lyubomirmarchev]

Modern day slavery? This is classic slavery for fucks sake

[zanitalh]

Someone needs to help them please, rich man is ripping them off, rich man needs to be taken to prison and all money plus extra for causing slavery, pain and distress to this very very hard working people 😢