Held in bonded labour, Afghan returnee children make bricks ...

"Samina, an eight-year-old Afghan girl, hasn't been to school since she was forced to return home with her family from Pakistan."

"She spends each day at a dusty, dirty brick kiln near the eastern city of Jalalabad, making bricks with her father to help repay the money the family borrowed to pay the truck driver who brought them across the border."

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BBC News - Why India's brick kiln workers 'live like slaves'

Source:BBC News


By Humphrey Hawksley
BBC News, Andhra Pradesh



"Like a scene from a long-gone age, men and women walk in single file up and down steps as if climbing a pyramid. They strain under a load,balanced in yoke-like hods, to deliver freshly moulded bricks to the
furnace."


Read  Humphrey Hawksley's report here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-25556965