Photo-A-Week #3: Children in the Brick Kilns

Today is a statutory holiday in Canada, but I have spent most of the day working on the photobook about the brick kilns in Nepal. Page after page, I looked for suitable pictures to best accompany the text. When I got to the chapter about the children in the brick kilns, my eyes were wet with tears. My heart was heavy when I saw how the children were robbed of their childhood. I thought to myself... they shouldn't be there. They shouldn't be working. They shouldn't be so dirty. But what I saw was the incredibly sad reality. Their grief and sufferings demand our response and help. Please join our cause in supporting the children in Nepal. 

- Joe

Photo-A-Week #2: Brick Kilns in Nepal

I have travelled to many places. But if I were to name one place that shocked me the most, it would be the brick kilns that I visited in the outskirts of Kathmandu.

Brick kilns in Nepal is not your typical factory where workers operate different machines to manufacture goods in an enclosed building. Instead, workers in the brick kilns turn raw earth into fired bricks with only their bare hands, while continually exposed to the intense heat and dust pollution.

My visits to the brick kilns usually lasted around an hour or so, yet I found them physically challenging. One time I even got very sick afterwards. I simply could not comprehend what the lives of these workers were like...

- Joe