In Bangladesh’s brick kilns, the line between worker and slave blurs. Over a million laborers endure 15-hour workdays, six days a week, stripped of fundamental rights and paid just Tk 100 for every 1,000 bricks. Poverty traps them in dangerous, grueling conditions, with no escape from the physical and emotional toll. Their dreams fade under the weight of their daily struggle, woven into the bricks they shape with their weary hands. In silence, they labor, their hopes crushed by the relentless survival cycle.
