The Freedom Missions Initiative — Pakistan

A debt
should never be
inherited.

Across Pakistan, families are born owing money they didn't borrow — bonded to brick kilns, passed from parent to child for generations. We find these families, pay off what's owed, reunite them, and help them start again. Free.

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20,000+
Brick kilns across Pakistan
2M+
People in bonded slavery today
~70%
Of bonded laborers are children
LEDGER NO. 0472 — MASIH FAMILY Bonded 3 Generations
Original loan, 1994Rs 40,000
Compounded interestRs 165,000
Inherited by childrenRs 210,000
Balance owedRs 415,000
FREE
The Crisis

Slavery that a family is born into.

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.

2M+
People are estimated to be living in modern slavery in Pakistan today, according to the Global Slavery Index — the majority in bonded labor.
~70%
Of Pakistan's bonded laborers are children — many working full days instead of attending school, inheriting debts they never took on.
3+
Generations is not unusual for a single family's debt to span — a grandparent's loan still being worked off by their grandchildren.
How It Works

Four steps to free a family.

This is the real sequence our field teams follow for every family in the Freedom Missions Initiative — start to finish.

01
Identify
Our teams work directly with kiln communities to find families trapped in bonded debt — often multi-generational, often invisible to the outside world.
02
Pay off the debt
We negotiate and settle the family's outstanding balance directly with the kiln owner — the single act that legally and practically ends their bondage.
03
Reunite
Families are often separated across kilns as "collateral." We reunite parents and children under one roof, together, for the first time in years.
04
Start again — free
We walk with each family into their first debt-free chapter: housing support, schooling for the children, and a path toward sustainable, independent income.
Our Impact

What's been paid in full.

Families freed from bonded debt—
Children now enrolled in school—
Total debt paid off on families' behalfRs —
Kiln communities reached—

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Stories of Freedom

Their debt. Their names.

Placeholder testimonies below — swap in real, consented stories from families your teams have freed. Always confirm consent before publishing a name, photo, or story.

"

My father owed this debt before I was born. My children were going to inherit it too. Now, for the first time, we own nothing to anyone.

— Placeholder name
Punjab, Pakistan
"

I never went to school. My son does now. That's the difference freedom makes — it doesn't stop with us, it changes what's possible for the next one.

— Placeholder name
Sindh, Pakistan
"

We were split across two kilns for three years. The day they brought our family back together in one home — that's the day it became real.

— Placeholder name
Punjab, Pakistan
You can pay off a family's debt today.

Every gift goes directly toward settling a real family's balance — the one act that ends their bondage for good.

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