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Project Moses
Grace International Alliance (GIA)
Project Moses
GIA is a parachurch, evangelical Christian non-profit organization that serves among the Pakistani-American Christians in the United States and Pakistan. Based in the state of Washington, GIA is a diverse body of Christian brothers and sisters, beyond race, color, and ethnicity; it is a mutually inclusive struggle of people who have a strong burden for the Church in Pakistan. Pakistan Christians are undeniably the most persecuted, socially and economically outcast and ostracized religious group in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Untouchability and injustice, slavery and torture have become part of daily life, and the list of their troubles is long. GIA serves among those who are left at the margins, abandoned by the Government and by us (Christians). GIA serves in the most difficult, radicalized, and Islamized parts of Pakistan.
Why Education
Many of us, particularly the Pakistani Christian diaspora around the world, the brutal torture and burning of a Christian couple in 2014. Shazad Masiah and his pregnant wife, Shama Babi, while working at a brick kiln, were attacked by a mob of angry Muslims. They were tortured and dragged through the streets before they were thrown into the furnace of the brick kiln, where bricks are baked. Their only sin was demanding their wages and fixing the errors in the accounts, a common practice in Pakistan. Imagine their helplessness when their valid demand was translated into a blasphemy accusation, resulting in death. Imagine the sense of fear and inferiority embedded in the hearts of Christians; it requires strong faith and extreme courage to exist in such conditions. Shazad and Shama’s case was documented. But hundreds of them suffer silently who are never documented. GIA works in these regions, with the vision that Jesus Christ is the master of change, he is the master educator, the Galilean carpenter, Son of the Living God, who changed the face of the earth with his teaching, and would also bring in Pakistan. For GIA, the traditional system of Christian Education in which the Gospel is the center of our Christian identity is of utmost importance. It provides us with a strong sense of empowerment and helps us to cherish our faith in the worst of human conditions. The missionaries who came to the subcontinent from St. Thomas to William Reed, an American missionary, won Bhai Datt Singh, an untouchable (Dalit) from the lower Chura caste. It was a missionary Christian school where my grandfather found Christ as his savior.
Why Christian Schools
As mentioned, GIA works in the remote border area of Punjab, these are strategic points where the state and its religious machinery (Islam) spared nothing to establish religious and strengthen Islamic organizations for their obvious geopolitical reasons. And these Islamic organization have achieved their goal. As a result, people are less tolerant of the communities of other faiths since they have become buffer zones and the defenders of their faith. Unfortunately, Christians are the only religious minority left in those areas; everyone else has already migrated to the other side of the border (India). Thus, every time the tension between the two countries rises, Christians have to function like a scapegoat, bearing the full potential of their religious wrath. Thus, most of these areas remain abandoned by the Christian leaders (religious and political), and direct preaching or any kind of interfaith dialogue becomes almost impossible. Therefore, one of the best ways to reach out is through free education. Education is the most expensive need in Pakistan; not everyone can afford it. Since GIA gives free education, and education is expensive, they don’t mind sending their kids to a Christian school.
There is another reason, as mentioned in the example of Bhai Dutta. Schools were an integral part of Christian mission work. And without any doubt, Christianity in India provided faith and also freedom—freedom from the shackles of the caste system and untouchability. The Christan of what is now Pakistan enjoyed a time of growth and prosperity during the Christian Mission Era (British India). The missionaries from America and other Western nations left colleges and universities behind. But right after the creation of Pakistan, the Christians saw a surge of systemic suppression in every field of life. They were not allowed to work in the agriculture sector, one of the main sources of commerce; they were reduced to inhuman jobs. Our schools and hospitals were forcefully taken over by the State, and we were not given admission to our own institutions. We Christians of Pakistan have been carrying this burden of perpetual suppression and injustice for almost eight years now. We are those who are despised and rejected by mankind; we are men and women of suffering, and we are familiar with pain. Like the ones from whom people hide their faces. We are despised, and we held him in low esteem. And we are he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent.
Why Demographics
The total population of Pakistan, according to statistics given by the Pakistani administration, is a little over 251 million in 2025, and 1.27 million (3187700, over three million) are Christians. There is a problem with the statement, and if ignored, it would be tantamount to being an accomplice to the cycle of injustice against Christians of Pakistan. Even if we take a casual look at the demographic of the country, it will invalidate the statistics provided by the Pakistani establishment. For example, even if we discount the rural population of the Christians and just count Christians in the urban centers of the country, their population is much more than three million. A modest guess would be three times higher than three million. The population of Pakistan has gone from 75 million to 251 million, but the population of Christians is still the same.
But the question one should ask is, why are the numbers kept so low? One of the obvious reasons is to keep them in check and under the thumb, although Christians are the most peaceful and peace-loving, and harmless minority in the country, blasphemy laws being one example to keep them away from the mainstream social and political activity.
Then there is the problem of political representation. Christians have nominal representation in the country’s political system. The political representatives are selected, rather, chosen, by the political parties, often from people who have no connection with Christians and their problems and suffering. Apart from political representation, the economic conditions are not in favor of Christians. Pakistan is going through one of the worst periods in its history. Natural disasters, terrorism, and wars with its neighbor are all happening at once in the country. Being at the last rung of the social ladder, they are the last to receive any support from the state or any other political and economic entity.
The Cycle of Despair: Debt and Slavery
Thus, in these situations, they are left with nothing but the jobs Muslims will not do. There are thousands of brick kilns spread around the country, and there are millions of people working on them, and at least eight percent of them are Christian brick workers. These brick kiln Christian laborers, often unseen and unheard, are among the most marginalized and vulnerable in Pakistan. Lacking skills and resources, they labor under dire conditions, deprived of necessities such as healthcare, education, and sanitation. Their grueling workdays, which can stretch up to 12 agonizing hours, yield meager wages, sometimes as low as Rs. 700 per day (three dollars). Temporary shelters, their only refuge, offer scant ventilation and expose them to the threat of fires and accidents. These workers borrow money from their owners as a loan, and A seemingly innocuous loan sets in motion a cycle of bondage that clenches generations in its cruel grip. The workers, ensnared in this web of exploitation, are kept in shadows, their accounts hidden from their eyes. For these millions who suffer, hopelessness stretches before them, an unending abyss of misery.
Debt spirals like a storm gathering momentum, swallowing families. Illnesses, inclement weather, deaths, marriages, and births—the very fabric of life—force these workers into the jaws of this insidious trap. Falling sick or bearing a child becomes an iron chain, tethering them to the kilns until debts are repaid. The borrowed sum of 500 rupees inflates to 1,000 rupees on paper, guaranteeing the perpetuation of poverty.
The Cycle of Despair: Debt and Slavery
Thus, in these situations, they are left with nothing but the jobs Muslims will not do. There are thousands of brick kilns spread around the country, and there are millions of people working on them, and at least eight percent of them are Christian brick workers. These brick kiln Christian laborers, often unseen and unheard, are among the most marginalized and vulnerable in Pakistan. Lacking skills and resources, they labor under dire conditions, deprived of necessities such as healthcare, education, and sanitation. Their grueling workdays, which can stretch up to 12 agonizing hours, yield meager wages, sometimes as low as Rs. 700 per day (three dollars). Temporary shelters, their only refuge, offer scant ventilation and expose them to the threat of fires and accidents. These workers borrow money from their owners as a loan, and A seemingly innocuous loan sets in motion a cycle of bondage that clenches generations in its cruel grip. The workers, ensnared in this web of exploitation, are kept in shadows, their accounts hidden from their eyes. For these millions who suffer, hopelessness stretches before them, an unending abyss of misery.
Debt spirals like a storm gathering momentum, swallowing families. Illnesses, inclement weather, deaths, marriages, and births—the very fabric of life—force these workers into the jaws of this insidious trap. Falling sick or bearing a child becomes an iron chain, tethering them to the kilns until debts are repaid. The borrowed sum of 500 rupees inflates to 1,000 rupees on paper, guaranteeing the perpetuation of poverty.
The Children Of Kilns: A Stolen Future
The condition of these Christians at the brick factories is similar to the Israelites in the land of Egypt. “The Global Slavery Index bears witness to an alarming truth—nearly 90% of these workers are ensnared in forced labor. Even though it’s illegal to employ those under 16, almost 70% of bonded laborers in Pakistan are children, robbed of their innocence and potential. These young souls trade classrooms for kilns; their education sacrificed on the altar of servitude.”
GIA and The Project Moses
Earning 3 dollars a day, eating once a day, and doing 12 hours of hard labor is the harsh reality of the lives of those millions of Christians in Pakistan who are reduced to working as brick makers and janitorial workers (dirtiest job). Thus, they have to choose one between the two: education or food for their children—food wins.
The Innocence shattered, childhoods stolen, the children of these kilns live lives robbed of the most basic rights. No church, no Sunday school, no formal education—instead, they inherit the skill of brickmaking. They lack toys, their laughter silenced as they endure a life denied its natural course. Growth opportunities are luxuries; capacity-building training is a distant dream.
Grace International Alliance’s Project Moses brings hope and education, with the vision that education will bring an end to this cycle of slavery. As mentioned, GIA is serving in one of the most harsh and inhuman regions in Pakistan with a dense population of Christians, bonded slaves. We have stories, stories of living human beings, stories of Christians suffering because of their faith, stories that can make a cold heart cry, stories of perpetual physical, sexual, emotional, and economic exploitation. Christian education is the only hope; the message of the Good News of Jesus Christ is hope to a huge number of people who is tightly locked in a prison of a larger scale because of their faith in God. The Message of Jesus is conveyed through education, that is, according to the Christian faith-based on education. Education is the most effective way to help them GIA has ben working in those remote area educating, childen and adalts in some time, they cry and beg to be heard, schools has changed thousands of us we need our schools now this is what they need and require most right now rather. There are we have brought them to a certain but now
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Appeal
Please be part of Project Moses through your prayers and supplications. Please be a part of Project Moses with your human and financial resources. Please be a part of Project Moses in any way you feel you can be helpful to the Christians of Pakistan.