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