{"id":64908,"date":"2024-06-14T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T03:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/jun\/14\/migrant-worker-debt-bondage-women-children-india-brick-kilns-healthcare-uttar-pradesh-bihar-dalit"},"modified":"2024-06-14T12:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T03:00:38","slug":"too-ill-to-work-too-poor-to-get-better-how-debt-traps-families-working-at-indias-kilns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64908","title":{"rendered":"Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India\u2019s kilns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access healthcare<\/p>\n<p>The phrase \u201c<em>khat rahein hain<\/em>\u201d (\u201cbeing worn down\u201d) is how Suma Devi describes her 16 years of labouring at the brick kilns near the city of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, more than 500 miles from her own state of Bihar.<\/p>\n<p>Six years ago Devi had just given birth to her baby daughter when she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and put on a nine-month course of antibiotics. It is an effective way to treat TB but Devi had to abandon the course halfway through to find work at the Madhav brick kiln in Naujheel, far from her home in a village near the city of Gaya.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/jun\/14\/migrant-worker-debt-bondage-women-children-india-brick-kilns-healthcare-uttar-pradesh-bihar-dalit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access healthcareThe phrase \u201ckhat rahein hain\u201d (\u201cbeing worn down\u201d) is how Suma Devi describes her 16 years of labouring at the brick kilns near the city &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[574,1128,847,59,566,62,86,1188,640,79,61,1792,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-labour","category-dalits","category-employment","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-india","category-law","category-malnutrition","category-migration-and-development","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-health","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64909,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64908\/revisions\/64909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}