How Millions Are Trapped In Modern-Day Slavery At Brick Kilns In Pakistan | Risky Business
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Published 2023-04-05
Many viewers have asked us how they can help the Meghwar family, featured in our documentary. The Green Bricks Foundation is raising money for them and plans on building a school for children in Azad Nagar. greenbricksfoundation.com/
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How Millions Are Trapped In Modern-Day Slavery At Brick Kilns In Pakistan | Risky Business
All Comments (21)
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The fact the entire family is stuck doing this because of something like a hospital bill is heart breaking
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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.
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The fact they aren’t angry with the debt collector makes me angry
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WTF?!?! 2 decades? 4 people worked for 2 decades to pay off ONE bill?
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There’s no damn way their orginal debt hasn’t been payed off already or nearly so. The kiln owners are cruel to inflict this on these people.😔
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The level of abuse of people and animals by these wealthy people is a disgrace.
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This ain’t “modern day slavery”, this is slavery. Period. The same kind of slavery that has existed for thousands of years.
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5:03 the boy says his parents are proud of his work and I can’t imagine feeling happy because you’re good at something you’re not even supposed to know at his age
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"the family doesn't blame him" broke my heart, these people are so pure and are living a life of indentured slavery...
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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…
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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 xxxxxx
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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!”
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A 70 year old woman doing this? I'm 73, and this got to me. I would be dead in a week. And trapping the whole family into this phony "debt." This is simply cruel, inhumane, slavery.
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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.
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That young boy seems so intelligent and wise. This just absolutely breaks my heart…
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Why not end the documentary with a way to help? I'd write a check today for what this poor family owes. I'm thankful for the awareness, but give the audience the ability to help.
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Not even a teenager and he already gave up hope for a better life. What's more devastating than this.
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Slavery never gone, it's adapting damn well into modern-day society.
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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.
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I ran the math and found out that he actually paid off his debit 17 years ago even with an insane interest rate. Currently the kiln oner has stolen 11 thousand dollars from just this man alone over 20 years. this math does not include the wages of his Wife, Son, or daughter.
