Many of these families are stuck in debt bondage and work to repay their loans. They make $1.50 a day and are told another $1.50 goes toward their debt. However, as there are no set contracts or conditions to these debt agreements, the families often don't know how much money they owe, how much interest is being added onto their debts, or how much longer they will have to continue to work before the debts are repaid.
His wife, 70-year-old mother, and 12-year-old son, Dileep, also all work at the kiln to pay off the same debt. Silicon Carbide Bricks
The kiln owner could bring in that same amount in one week just by selling the very bricks the Meghwar family produces.
In July 2022, three workers died when they dropped into the blazing kiln.
Terracotta Air Bricks There are nearly 20,000 of these brick kilns in Pakistan and over 100,000 across South Asia. In some cities, they account for 91% of pollution, according to the World Bank. As of November 2022, Pakistan's Environmental Protection Agency closed roughly 70 kilns because of overpopulation.