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Iqbal Masih

In this post, I'll write about one of the people who influenced a lot for the world. This particular person became a symbol of abusive child labor in the developing world. Iqbal Masih is a Pakistani boy who helped more than 3.000 underaged children escape from slavery. He was born in 1983 in Muridke, a commercial city outside of Lahore in Punjab, Pakistan. It all started from his own experience. He was 4 years old when his parents sold him to be a slave for 12 dollars or Rp. 120.000. He was sold to a carpenter . But som e also say t hat his parents borrowed money and in return I qbal was requi red to work until the debt was paid . Every day, he would rise before dawn and make his way along dark country roads to the factory, where he and most of the other children were tightly bound with chains to prevent escape. He would work 12 hours a day, seven days a week, with only a 30-minute break, paid 3 cents a day for the loan, but no matter what Iqbal did the loan just got bi