Iqbal Mash
Published on Nov 25, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
IQBAL MASIH
THE SAVIOR OF CHILDREN
Who was Iqbal?
Iqbal Masih was a boy born in 1983 in the small town of murdike. Iqbal and his family were very poor. They were so poor that they needed to borrow money. However, like most poor families in his area, they could not pay off their debt. So Iqbal was sent to a factory to work off their debts
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Life in the factory.
When Iqbal was four he was sent to a rug shop to pay off his family's debt. His debt was 600 rupees or 16 American dollars. While at a rug shop he became determined to leave there, alive.
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LIFE AS A SLAVE...
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The factory that he was forced to work for was very cruel, the man named Hussain Khan, and a man named Ashar, were the masters. They were from different factories that Iqbal worked at. Iqbal worked 14 hours a day with no rest, no education, little food, and a thirty minute break.
THE ROAD TO FREEDOM
At the age of 10, Iqbal escaped his slavery, after learning that bonded labor was declared illegal by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.But he was caught by police and brought back to Arshad and told him to tie him upside down if he tried to escape again. Soon after, the police were bribed and Iqbal was tied up anyways.
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However the second time he escaped, he met a man named Eshan Khan. Eshan Khan was apart of the Bonded Labor Liberation Rights, or the BLLR. Then Iqbal and Eshan went to the rug factory where he worked and shut it down.
LATER LIFE.
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After being freed from labor, he wanted more to do with the labor laws, so he started speaking out about his stories. People began to boycott rugs from rug factories, as the more supporters rose, so did the haters. A man named Malik who worked with the rug business said "people are not thinking of rugs as a stylish fasion, but as something made from the blood of children.
He then spoken out to many countries about children's rights. In 1994, Iqbal earned the reebok youth in action prize.
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