End Modern Slavery & Free Families
It is hard to imagine, but modern slavery still exists today. In parts of Pakistan, entire families are trapped in bonded labour, forced to work in brick kilns without wages, legal protection, or basic human rights. The Freedom Campaign works to end modern bonded labor and free families. Right now, forced labour traps millions of men, women, and children around the world. They wake up with no choice about where they work or whether they receive fair pay. Human trafficking and modern day slavery remain among the greatest injustices of our time, and bonded labour flourishes wherever poverty meets desperation.
Al Mustafa Welfare Trust launched The Freedom Campaign as a direct response. As an organization dedicated to justice, we pay off the crippling debt holding a family hostage and walk them out of the brick kiln for good. No family should spend their whole day – or entire life – repaying a loan they never had a fair chance of clearing.
Donate now to help a family in need pay off their loan and to give them the freedom they deserve.
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The Freedom Campaign is Al Mustafa Global Family's effort to end modern slavery. We find vulnerable families that brick kiln owners have trapped in bonded labour. Usually these families take loan during sudden financial crises such as emergency medical bill, funeral costs, or wedding arrangements. With no assets to offer as collateral, they are unable to access formal banking services or secure legitimate financial support.
As a result, they turn to brick kiln owners for loans, entering into informal debt agreements. In exchange, they commit to working long hours to repay the borrowed amount—often becoming trapped in a cycle of bonded labour and ongoing financial hardship. What sounds like a simple arrangement turns into a trap. The kiln owner charges them unfairly, controls their wages, adds rent and electricity bills for their own accommodation, and stacks on interest.
The family's average daily wage barely comes to a dollar, and the original debt keeps growing. Entire families – including young kids – end up lifting heavy bricks instead of going to school or building a future.
Give your Zakat to Al Mustafa USA's Freedom Campaign and help these families from crushing debt.
We receive your donations to free a family from debt.
We release funds to our local team who have already identified vulnerable families.
Our team travel to the area and facilitate a meeting between the family and kiln owner, where the loan is paid off and the family is finally free after generations of enslavement.
We send you photos and a message from the family you helped free.
Bonded labour is a common form of modern slavery.
A person borrows money and promises to work to pay it back. In reality, they can never earn enough to clear the debt. This traps families in a cycle of poverty. This often happens at brick kilns, where the work is dangerous and involves long hours in the sun. Owners force women and children to work too. Most of these children never get to go to school.
Families usually borrow money for emergencies like medical bills. The owners pay very low wages and charge extra for housing. The debt keeps growing. If a parent dies, the children inherit the debt. This issue affects millions in South Asia and Africa. It hits poor and discriminated groups the hardest because laws are rarely used to protect them.
There is a way to break the cycle – it starts with paying off the debt.
Your donations can help take a family out of modern-day slavery & help generations to flourish.
Entire families have been enslaved for generations due to vicious cycles of debt and poverty.
Kiln owners charge families more for housing than they pay them in wages, ensuring their debt is never paid and they never leave the brickyards.
80% of working children have never been to school. Without an education, children have no chance to find opportunities outside the brickyards.
work such as construction, bricklaying, agriculture or domestic work.
Families trapped in bonded labour are among the most Zakat eligible on earth. The Holy Quran names freeing people from bondage as a direct purpose for Zakat:
"The alms are meant only for the poor and the needy and those who are in charge thereof, those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and to free those in bondage, and to help those burdened with debt, and for expenditure in the Way of Allah and for the wayfarer. This is an obligation from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All Wise." (Quran 9:60)
When you give your Zakat to The Freedom Campaign, you fulfill one of its most powerful purposes – liberating human beings from slavery and crushing debt. Human trafficking and modern day slavery rob people of their dignity, but your support can restore it.
The Prophet (PBUH) said: "Whoever frees a Muslim slave, Allah will save all the parts of his body from the (Hell) Fire as he has freed the body-parts of the slave." – Sahih al-Bukhari
Your support doesn't just help one person. When you free a family, you shatter a cycle that would have continued for generations. The children get education. You don't just let the cycle continue – you end it.
Bonded labour flourishes because of poverty and widespread caste-based discrimination. Limited access to justice, education and jobs for discriminated groups makes it difficult to get out of poverty. The need for cash for daily survival forces people to sell their labour in exchange for a loan.
Despite the fact that bonded labour is illegal the laws are rarely enforced, particularly where the people who exploit those from more vulnerable groups belong to the ruling classes.
Islamically they are Zakat eligible as described in the holy Quran as follows, "The alms are meant only for the poor and the needy and those who are in charge thereof, those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and to free those in bondage, and to help those burdened with debt, and for expenditure in the Way of Allah and for the wayfarer. This is an obligation from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.” (Quran 9:60)
The debt amount is vary from families to families, some families have debts even more than $2000 and some less than that. Its hard to manage the donation for each family so we have the average donation amount to free a family from the crippling debt.
We collect donations and Zakat to pay off debts of families trapped in bonded labour at brick kilns. Once cleared, the family is released for good. You'll receive photos and a message from the family you helped free.
As per the estimation of the Al Mustafa Global Family, the average is $2,500 to pay off the debt amount. A one-time gift or monthly donations of $167 can free a family from generational debt. Join the campaign and give these families a future free from slavery and poverty.
