Madrassas exploit child labor in India « Frontlines of ...

... timely wake-up call for the community. It is a narrative that speaks of children repeatedly lured away from disenfranchised parents in the name of religion and pushed into hellish chutes of hard work, little food and â€" mostly â€" no pay. .... Akmal has not been home in two years. He says he wants to play gulli-danda with his younger brother Rafiq. He is paid 50 every Sunday for his work. His life's reprieve is the food he buys from a 'hotel' with that money every week. ...