The One Rescues

By shopping here you are directly supporting the liberation of enslaved families trapped in the Pakistani Brick Kilns. A portion of each sale goes to directly pay the debt of a family trapped in slavery. 

Across Pakistan’s brick kilns, entire families work under inherited debts they can never repay, with children born into the same bondage as their parents. We identify these families, negotiate and settle the debt that binds them to the kiln owner, and provide a small business grant so the family has income from day one of freedom. We then stay engaged through ongoing monthly visits, tracking safety, income, schooling, and health long after the rescue day.

50 million individuals are ensnared in human trafficking including forced labor worldwide. Pakistan ranks 4th on the list of the amount of slavery with a staggering 4.1 million Pakistanis trapped in this modern-day form of slavery. A significant portion of these victims are religious minorities.

Motivated by dire poverty and urgent needs such as medical expenses or matrimonial costs, many find themselves taking out loans or cash advances. The expectation: to repay these debts through labor on brick kilns—a cycle from which escape becomes impossible.

For Pakistan’s minority communities, options are few and freedoms fewer. Subjected to systemic discrimination they encounter barriers to education, employment, and fair wages solely due to their faith. Forced into desperate circumstances, they often turn to predatory loans from the brick kiln industry simply to survive, whether to put food on the table, keep a roof overhead, or seek medical attention.

In a cruel irony, these loans, supposedly a temporary solution, morph into lifelong shackles. Garnished wages, skyrocketing interest rates, and insurmountable debt conspire to ensure that the promise of repayment remains forever out of reach.

The system is kept in place by threats, intimidation and assaults, particularly directed at women and frequently escalating into brutal physical violence and rape meant to punish, silence and dominate.

The victims are forced into hard labor, making bricks all day. The debt becomes generational, and young children who should be in school, are forced to work in the brickyard with their parents, inheriting their parents debt.

This is the family we are currently raising funds for:

Riasat Indrias Family

32 Years Slavery | 4 Family Members | 2 Children

If you'd like to get involved or for more info, please email me:
tatiana@theonerescues.org
theonerescues.org

The One Rescues
We are a non-profit 501c3 organization
EIN #99-4475177

 

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