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Chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association, Wilson Chowdhry, said:<\/p>\n
“We chose to name our school after Tim Iqbal Masih as his short life has been an inspiration to our group. His commitment to save others and in so doing sacrificing his own life is a message to us all. Freedom from oppressors will always come at a cost and so often martyrs are forgotten. We wanted his desire to emancipate other victims to be be remembered, that it might cement a place for acceptance of the beleaguered Christian minority in Pakistan and inspire generations of humanitarians yet to come.”<\/span><\/p>\n Tim Iqbal Masih was 4 years old when his torturous story began. To pay for the wedding of his brother his mother took a small loan from a local Malnourishment and abuse left him looking emaciated but God had blessed him with great intelligence. At 10 years old he escaped his captivity Tim was later helped by a local NGO who helped him gain a four year education in only two years, Tim is said to have been a prodigy. He began speaking Tim Iqbal Masih, once said:<\/p>\n \u201cI would like to do what Abraham Lincoln did… I would like to do it in Pakistan\u201d <\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 16 years ago a young child of only 12 years old was shot dead after celebrating an Easter service in his home town of Muridke, Lahore, Pakistan. Tim Iqbal Masih is believed to have been shot for his role in freeing 3000 bonded Labour children, most of them Christians. On Saturday 16th April 2016 the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n businessman operating in the notorious carpet weaving factories in her local vicinity. Sadly when the repayment date two years later was missed
\n Tim’s life of slavery began working for 14 hours a day, six days a week. Despite hours of employment he was never even close to paying of the debt
\n he owed his masters, which started off as a loan of less then 50 pounds and grew to thousands of pounds, due to fines for late repayment, lateness
\n and mistakes. Also the contracted his mother had signed with a thumb print required him to pay for the equipment and tools he used for his work, for
\n the ‘apprenticeship’ he was provided with, for food and for burgeoning interest.<\/p>\n
\n with some friends and went to local Police. Sadly the heartless officers of the law favoured the rishwat (bribes) from the carpet weaving mafia
\n over justice and returned the escapees to their masters for the lucrative ‘finders fee’. This despite physical evidence of cuts, whippings and
\n beatings that covered the bodies of the young children.<\/p>\n
\n out against the ongoing atrocities in bonded labour sweatshops across Pakistan desiring to free others from the same predicament. He would enter
\n into factor and encourage children to leave and explaining that news laws meant that modern day slavery of this nature had been banned and that companies
\n had been compensated by a removal of the debts owed to the government (despite this debt removal few businesses freed their bonded labourers). Tim
\n eventually spoke in several countries across the world raising the profile of the pernicious modern day slavery of which 85% of victims were Christians
\n in an attempt to eradicate child slavery in Pakistan. In 1994 he was awarded the Reebok Human Rights Award in Boston, two weeks later he spoke
\n at a UN General assembly at only 12 years after an invite via UNICEF. He was due to start a degree in law at Brandeis University in Boston May
\n 1995, but was shot dead weeks before the start of a promising future.<\/p>\n
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Below is an agreement signed on 16th April 2016 confirming sale of land for our school in Kasur.<\/strong>
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