Workers Welfare Society
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Micro Credit Program
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Pakistan
supplies around 70% of the world’s footballs, with an estimated 44,000 men and
women stitchers in the Sialkot region of Pakistan involved in
the production of 35 million footballs every year. International campaigns
based
stitchers to independently monitored stitching centers and providing
constructive alternatives for
subcontractors
and are segregated by gender to comply with religious and cultural values.
However, low pay and a lack of social benefits remain issues for workers in
the industry.
