| Thar Pakar Province (Sindh) - Pakistan
For most people slavery
immediately conjures up images of shackled Africans held in dark
cargo holds of ships crossing the Atlantic. However the harsh
reality is that slavery still exists and is thriving. .
There are an estimated 27 million slaves alive today. The majority,
up to 20 million, are bonded laborers in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh
and Nepal. Bonded labour is a contemporary from of slavery (debt
bondage), where people are forced in to slavery due to debts
inherited from past generations.
Ummah Welfare Trust has embarked on this extraordinary initiative
to liberate these bonded labourers and to rehabilitate them back in
to society. Ummah Welfare Trust will be working in Thar Pakar –
Sindh province of Pakistan where there is an estimated 50,000 bonded
labourers according to the statistics given by the Human Rights
commission of Pakistan, who have consequently freed 7,500 bonded
labourers since 1995.
Total cost to free one family is:- £600
This includes the following:
• Paying debt for freedom
• Education program
• Clothes
• Household utilities
• Either a donkey cart, sewing machine etc for income generation
• Travelling costs
• Land for residence
Cost to build one home is £1,700
| Project |
Amount |
Type |
| To free one family from Slavery |
£600 |
Z/S/L |
| To free one Slave |
£100 |
Z/S/L |
| To build a home for a freed family |
£1,700 |
Z/S/L |
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