Razia is a generational worker in a brick kiln. All of her family works in the brick kiln as well. She suffers from tuberculosis and is very sick and weak, though she is continually trying to work for her children.
Her family wanted new clothes and food to celebrate Christmas as they had only been eating dry bread and tea due to the kiln shutdown during the smog. When she asked the brick kiln owner to borrow money for food for Christmas, he flatly refused unless each family member made 1,000 bricks each.
Crying, she wished for a Christmas miracle as she told us these things.
Thanks to your generous support, Razia’s family received one of the 40 food kits we distributed to brick kiln families this Christmas season and her children also received donated clothing.
We’re so grateful for your generous support of our work, and we rejoice in the stories of so many lives changed last year. Thank you for your continued partnership with us to end the cycles of poverty trapping religious minorities in Pakistan.
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