Covid-19 changed life for everyone. "Nazir" our leader in Lahore Pakistan has discovered Muslim children and elderly begging for food on the main bridge. They all live in abject poverty under the bridge.
Without help, they have nothing. The children and disabled go days without food. The monsoon rains add to the misery.
Food is prepared at home and transported on the donkey cart to the days distributing place. Other slum families found living in makeshift scrap wood shack leaking rains. £700+ given from our local church provided large plastic sheets to cover the roofs.
Another amazing open door are the brick making workers. Isolated families trapped as slaves to the owner. Desperate for food. Every child works making bricks from the day they can walk. There’s no schooling; Impossible quotas are given to ‘fail’ at. The punishment is, more time added to their ‘Bond’ as time is added to a prison sentence; until it accumulates to a life time, and beyond; continued by the children’s, children working off the lost quota hours. Life expectancy is short. Accidents and deaths go unreported; rural villagers will fill the loss. We’ve encountered this before in the Kathmandu and Bangladesh brick making fields. We’ve been able to pay an agreed ‘Ransom’ to owners and ‘freed’ some weak, sick and no longer productive to the owner. No different to the donkeys serving the slaves. Mostly about £500 a family. In Kathmandu we started kids play at night, this led to singing, and chalk & slate ABC learning, and resulted in a school and better conditions for the families. It took 6yrs of hard work.
A Pakistani family in our Walsall church discovered Muslims in another region's brick factory, in desperate need with no food during work Lockdown. The £1,000 sent bought Rice, lentils, Ghee, Tea, sugar, flour etc, to all the families. A new Muslim opportunity. Every Gift we receive we send to bring help through our workers.
Please contact me vicagledhill@gmail.com
Thank you for every encouragement this gives to those who are dedicated to contacting those those most needy. Vic.
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