Iraqi brick workers risk health, life to keep families afloat

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Iraqi brick workers risk health, life to keep families afloat

Al-Kifl (AFP) Feb 20, 2025 As dawn broke over central Iraq, teenage sisters Dalia and Rukaya Ghali were loading heavy bricks, forced out of school and into a hazardous job to support their family. Covered in dirt, the sisters toiled for hours at the oil-fired brickworks near Al-Kifl city south of Baghdad, earning just enough to keep their younger siblings at school. "I'm very tired, but what else can we do?" said