He says her father told him almost 8,000, which he wrote off out of compassion. The bbc report, campaigners came to me and i said i have forgiven the debt. Now they are free. I have children, too. I took pity on theirs. For the girl and her family, this newfound freedom means at the chance of a better life. Still poor, but no longer trapped. Said with what they earn picking cotton, he hopes to send her and her brothers to school. Is hoping for that, tooo, too, and tells me she liked working the land. There, we spent all day in the mud taking bricks. Now we work for only four hours a day. We are better off here. And this is another advantage of their new location. Life certainly looks a lot different. Here at least for a time she can set work aside and simply be a child. But the biggt change is she can look forward to taking her place in the classroom, having a chance to learn. That is something that seemed impossible before. Of children in pakistan never get to school. Ie and her sibli