Blood bricks: the children broken by Nepal’s kilns – video | Global development | The Guardian
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’I don’t know what will happen, I’m already broken,’ says 16-year-old Bishal who, with his brothers, begins making bricks at 1.45am each day, and only stops 15 hours later. He works alongside his eight-year-old brother Shankar, who is also among the estimated 14,000 children under the age of 14 working in Nepal’s brick industry. Some of the bricks from the kiln where they work have been used in a UN development project funded by the UK. Work in Nepal’s brick kilns is characterised by long hours, low pay and a system of debt bondage that can bind some workers to kilns for months, and even years
