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Don’t you have forgot to memorize the 16th past: World anti child labory slavery day, in memoriam for Iqbal Masih
His tragic livestory from World Wide Web page Wikipededia :
Iqbal Masih was born in 1982,Muridke, a very small, rural village outside of Lahore in Pakistan. Shortly after Iqbal’s birth, his father, Saif Masih, abandoned the family. Iqbal’s mother, Inayat, worked as a housecleaner, but found it diffecult to make enough money to feed all her children from her small income. She then borrowed 600 rupees (12$) from a local money lender (Hussain Khan). To pay off her debt, she sent her 4 year old son into Child labor, working for Hussain Khan. He also worked in carpet factories and was fed little food and water. The mistress was very cruel, she always scolded the children and always threatened them. When at first Iqbal tried to escape he ended up staying in the Tomb for 3 days. The tomb was an old cistern, buried under the courtyard, closed by a grating at the foot of a damp, slippery stairway leading up to the iron door. There was no light down there.
Escape and activism
At the age of 10, he escaped brutal slavery and later joined the BLLF (Bonded Labor Liberation Front of Pakistan) to help stop child labor around the world. Iqbal helped over 3,000 Pakistani children that were in bonded labour escape to freedom, and made speeches about child labour all around the world. Iqbal’s story later became a book.
Legacy
In January 2009, the United States Congress established the annual Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor.
Iqbal visited Broad Meadows Middle School in Quincy, Massachusetts and spoke to 7th graders about his life. When the students learned of his death, they decided to raise money and built a school in his honor in Pakistan.
Iqbal’s work and subsequent death inspired a 12 year old Canadian boy; Craig Kielburger to devote his life to Iqbal’s cause and organize Free The Children.
Iqbal Masih (Urdu: اقبالمسیح) (b. 1982 – April 16, 1995)
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