Child labour: ‘Brick by brick’ event to stop exploitation of children in kilns
With a view to promoting clean and “abuse-free bricks,” the Brick Clean Network is organising a multi-media event on Saturday.
The event—’Brick by Brick’—will include programmes like Nepal’s first ever flashmob, a photo exhibition by Indian documentary photographer Achinto Bhadra and a contemporary art performance prepared by American artist Karl Knapp.
One of the main attractions of the event is the flashmob, which consists of a group of people who assemble all of a sudden in a public place to perform an unusual and sometimes seemingly pointless act for a brief time.
The event will also feature human-size images of brick factory workers by Achinto. The ‘Brick by Brick’ flashmob will involve over 100 dancers, promoting a message to buy clean and green bricks or the ones that has not involved exploitation of children, animals and environment. “We have come up with the concept that art can change human conditions,” Knapp said.
The Brick Clean Network is a group of social workers, environmentalists and child and animal rights advocates in Kathmandu and lobbies for responsible brick making. The network has developed a system to categorise brick factories as red, orange and green.
By now, it has categorised three factories as orange—Satyanarayan brick factory at Imadol in Lalitpur, Brahmayani brick factory in Bhaktapur and Bungmati Bricks in Lalitpur. “We want to make people ask before buying bricks whether they have sufferings of children, animals and labourers in them,” said Brick Clean Network Secretary Usha Manandhar.
Posted on: 2011-04-08 09:02
Post Your Comment
Today's Paper
The Kantipur in Print
FROM THE PAST 7 DAYS
ENTER KEYWORD OR DATE
FROM THE PAST 7 DAYS
ENTER KEYWORD OR DATE
Abin
All of them discussed the issue. The result was the same...and we have committed to continue discussions on the issue till midnight.
ADVERTISEMENTS
OUR PUBLICATION :
