The Brick Jacket
The Brick Jacket
Crafted from heavy canvas, the Brick Jacket is all-weather repellent and designed to be worn for extra-long workdays at brick kilns. Reinforced wrist-protection shields the wearer from cuts and blisters and enables heavy lifting. Openable armpits cool down the wearer when close to the furnaces. A special pocket stores an oxygen tube in case of exhaustion and a face mask to prevent dust and chemical intake.
You can help us fight child labor by donating any amount here. Or, you can buy the actual piece of clothing. The price: One year’s worth of salary for the workers.
Please note: That the purpose of this item is not for actual usage. In fact, it shouldn’t even exist. It has been developed by SOS Children’s Villages to work as a reminder of the hazardous working conditions of some of the most dangerous jobs in the world - performed by millions of children worldwide.
The Brick Industry
Child labor in the brick industry is marked by grueling conditions. Children as young as five years old work up to 12-14 hours at brick kilns while exposed to dust, toxins, and heavy labor as they haul wheelbarrows full of clay and bricks back and forth between the searing hot furnaces.