Mozambique
Farooq's story
In 2020, we started supporting a YWAY vegetable garden project. This allows the YWAY team to reach out to more people. Like to Farooq, he lives with his wife Sonia and their baby daughter in the Youngson Abad area.
For the past two years, Farooq worked in a brickyard. His father had a loan with the owner of the brickyard and worked there to pay off the loan. When he died, this obligation passed to Farooq. He has to work more than 12 hours a day and has only one day off in the month. To pay off the loan, money is deducted from his salary. But he gets no insight into paying off the loan and does not know how long he has to do this work. His wife Sonia works in another brickyard. What happens here is not allowed by law and yet local authorities do not intervene.
YWAY supports these families and asks us to pray for people like Farooq and for opportunities to free them from slavery. We also want to prevent new situations like Farooq's.
