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XXI Century Slavery
Slavery in the 21st century? Is it possible that today we are dealing with modern slavery? - Yes, it is possible!
This is the case in Pakistan, but it is also possible in other countries. The slave labour practice is developing on a large scale. This is because people are denied education, they need to live off something, and when they experience their fate through disease or other harm, they cannot cope. It often looks like brick factory owners make loans to the poor. However, brick factories have a developed mechanism based on human misfortune and helplessness. They gather around them people who have fallen into some sudden life situation caused by financial failure and who give their lives and their children's lives to the owner of a brick factory hands. They consider that most Pakistanis live in more or less poverty and can barely make ends meet in the face of illness. With the death of a family member or an attempt to educate their child, they decide to loan money and thus are affected by a spiral of debt that they cannot cope with. Such a debt is passed on to subsequent generations, which means that the newborn child is born as a potential enslaved person. Considering that brick factories are incredibly profitable, some people are willing to loan money quickly and incur debt they do not pay off in life. Thus the debt is passed on to the next generations. Hence whole generations work in factories, who know no other life and are so stuck in the slave trade all their lives. Factory owners provide their workers with housing and sham subsistence. Loan repayment is deducted from wages. In theory, it sounds humane, but everything they receive is exploitation. They are given primitive housing that has nothing to do with what the inhabitants of civilized countries mean. These are conditions that we can confidently call life in a job camp. From an early age, children are engaged and exploited to work, where the parents themselves are convinced that this way they have a chance to pay off faster the debt, but in practice, it never happens. Relief operations, unfortunately, cannot save the whole world. They cannot keep even the children who used to work in these cruel camps called factories, but since we cannot save an entire world, at least let's try to keep one family for which we will hold their inner world.
