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Life In Debt

Brick kilns in India employ more than 23 million workers, many of them that migrate for work in Brick kilns from other states. When they don't work in kilns, they often work in agricultural fields. Slavery practices in both of these sectors are endemic, with many families falling victim to debt-bondage. That's why their children also work and cannot go to school. Here the children are working and helping the man to gather coal for baking clay bricks in a brick kiln.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 01.2018
Date Uploaded: 11.2018
Photo Location: Bankura, India
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Copyright: © Natasha Mandal