Why is Omar stitching footballs secretly at home?



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Why is Omar stitching footballs secretly at home?


Mitre top quality footballs cost £60 in a shop.



Omar lives in the outskirts of Sialkot in Pakistan.

In Sialkot 75% of the world hand stitched footballs are made.

Mitre, a British company have footballs made in Pakistan because it can exploit the low wages for workers.

Mitre is under pressure from its directors to raise profits.



Rizwan, a factory owner in Sialkot offers to make footballs at a low price.

The women who stitch footballs are unhappy at their low wages, but they need to feed their families.


Omar‘s dad died when he was young, so his family need him to work.

A stitcher earns 50p per football. About 4 can be stitched in a day

When Omar watches football on his Uncle’s television, he wonders if the football being used was made by him

Omars mum’s sight has been slowly getting worse in recent years. She can no longer stitch.


In the past, many children have worked in stitching centres to help raise money for their families

Before the Atlanta agreement, Omar’s family were just about getting by.

The Atlanta agreement was reached in 1997. Companies like Nike, Reebok and Mitre agreed not to buy from factories who use children

Many factory owners in Pakistan have also signed the agreement to stop using child labour.


Today, more children in Sialkot go to school



There are now no children working in stitching centres, (but some do work secretly at home)



There was an outcry in 1996, when it was discovered that children as young as 7 or 8 were stitching footballs for a living.

Save the Children say that more needs to be done to help families find other ways to earn money after this agreement.

Unfortunately, Omar is still not receiving an education and his family are worse off than before.

The aim of the Atlanta agreement was to stop child exploitation



Mitre claimed that they were unaware that any children were being used in their factories




Reproduced with thanks to the Nottingham Bluecoat School Geography Department


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