Kiln smoke is a serious threat to environment

Nearly ten kilometers away from the capital, Dehsabz is situated in northeastern suburb of Kabul. It is a district with growing population of estimatedly 150,000 people, living in 44 villages. There are a number of brickkilns in which thousands of workers work with many travails although the district is neither proper for agriculture nor it is an industrial district. Etilaat-e-Roz’s Hamid Farhadi has visited the district, and he has brought up stories of how hardly brickkiln workers work to survive, and how smoke produced by kilns changes the face of the area.

Leaving his home in Balkh province, Juma Hassan after days of roaming around in Kabul in search of labor finally gets a job in a kiln in Dehsabz. He describes his new job as a “hard labor” but feels happy of being able to win bread for his family. “During summer days working here looks like [working] in hell,” he said as he wiped away sweats pouring down his forehead. More than 90 other labors are also working along with Hassan in the same kiln.