" Bail-U-Out "
Service Projects
SLAVERY STILL EXISTS!!!
Urgent need for donations
More than 2 million Pakistanis are trapped in modern-day slavery', condemned to a lifetime of hardship to pay back supposed debts.
Laws have been in place since the early 1990s to outlaw bonded labour, but still the cycle continues, with thousands of children sucked in every year to help pay back money their parents have often borrowed out of desperation.( Food, medicine, rent etc.)
Crouching children gather lumps of clay and pack them into rectangular moulds. On the ground, long rows of unbaked bricks wait to go into the kiln.
These are the scenes that have been the backdrop to many lives since childhood. For several decades they have worked in a brick kiln as bonded labourers, tied to their employer by a debt a salary will never enable them to repay.
My name is Mumtaz.
I'm one of the many victims of bonded labor.
My sister's kidneys were failing, so we tried to raise money to save her. We sold our cattle and property.That was everything we had. When I ran out of options I took a 5.000 rupee loan from the Brick kiln. I thought I could pay it back by working 15 to 20 days. When the time was up and I got ready to leave, the Brick kiln owners who did the account told me: "You lived in our house, ate our food. You owe us 11.000 Rupees. Pay it or go back to work!" I never saw my wages and have to work day and night. When I stop working, they beat me. A few months later when my grandfather died and needed a few days of, They told me, I owed them 30.000 Rupees now! My sister died and I now owe them 350.000 Rupees. Soon my dept will pass on to the next generation.This is what they are doing to those who in need. Please help!
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*1.000 Rupees = $10
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GIVE WHAT YOU CAN! EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS!
" Water-4-All "
PUNJAB KAHNEWAL IN PAKISTIS IN NEED OF CLEAN DRINKING WATER!
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84% of the population does not have access to safe drinking water according to a study conducted by the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR). Rana Tanvir Hussain, Minister for Science and Technology, while briefing the senate on the availability of clean drinking water made an alarming revelation stating that of the 72% water supply schemes that were actually functional, 84% had supplied water unfit for human consumption.
That around Rs 279 million had been spent in four years on projects to increase availability of safe drinking water is simply criminal. In Sindh and Punjab around 14% of water supply sources are contaminated with arsenic that is above the 10–50 parts per billion limit; prolonged consumption of which can be fatal.
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Reports on the abysmal condition of basic necessities such as clean drinking water, affordable healthcare and better public education are aplenty. The lack of attention or concern towards these reports is eerily familiar on part of the persons responsible as they set them aside with the words “we have taken notice”. Little is done on the implementation end and the situation remains more or less the same.
The irony is that ministers and representatives of the people that are elected to solve these problems themselves can afford better versions of all these necessities provided by the private sector while the common man is left to his own devices. Each province gets a hefty development budget each year but it is either under-utilised highlighting lack of institutional capacity. or prioritised to be used for high visibility infrastructure projects providing election sloganeering material or is misappropriated.
Help us to help them!!
"Thank you all so much!" Because of your gifts we can play again. We don't have to feel sick all the time!"
Children are at risk by drinking unclean water. As children’s bodies aren’t as strong as adults, drinking unsafe water puts children in danger of deadly bouts of diarrhea, parasites and other water related diseases.