Toddlers freed from brick kiln bondage – The CNN Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery - CNN.com Blogs

(CNN) – A flaring furnace blasts another wave of searing heat on the faces of workers hauling bricks under a southern Indian sun.

They work up to 22 hours a day propping heavy stacks of bricks on their heads. None expects to be paid for this labor. None knows how long they'll be kept here. Some are as young as three years old.
Manoj Singh was one of 149 people rescued this year from a brick kiln outside Hyderabad, India. Like millions of other Indians, the toddler was born into extreme poverty.


Toddlers freed from brick kiln bondage – The CNN Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery - CNN.com Blogs