Watch our latest intervention documentary to see how your partnership is transforming lives, restoring dignity, and bringing families out of the shadows into a future filled with hope.
It starts small — a loan for a medical bill, a wedding, a bad harvest. A family takes an advance from a brick kiln owner, and in return, agrees to work off the debt making bricks.
But the wages are set by the owner. The interest is set by the owner. The debt almost never shrinks — it grows. When parents grow too old or too sick to work, the balance doesn't disappear. It passes to their children. And their children's children.
This is bonded labor: legally banned in Pakistan since 1992, and yet still the daily reality for millions of families — most of them working at the more than 20,000 brick kilns scattered across the country.
This is the real sequence our field teams follow for every family in the Freedom Missions Initiative — start to finish.
Meet the families whose lives have been permanently transformed by this mission.
"We have worked at a brick kiln, from sunrise to nightfall, while our four children have never attended school. We long for freedom, education, and a better future for our family, and dream of seeing our children live freely someday, away from the hardship surrounding them."
"My children have never known what freedom is. They work beside us at the brick kiln, continuing our family's fourth generation of slavery. We have endured harsh conditions, longing for education, freedom, and a better future, and enjoying the childhood they deserve, beyond the kiln."
"We have been in Brickslane, after my husband Ramzan died, leaving me and our daughter. I battle Hepatitis C despite harsh conditions. I seek help to escape brick labor, and support our daughter, and build a better life beyond the kiln."
These are the true stories of families who broke the cycle and reclaimed their freedom.
Step into the heart of our Freedom Mission in Pakistan. Explore moments from our recent field visit, where families trapped in debt had their debts paid and were set free from bonded slavery.
Your donation goes directly toward settling a real family’s debt, making it possible for them to live in freedom.
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