[Editor's note: This post was written by April Thompson of GoodWeave (previously called the RugMark Foundation). GoodWeave was a finalist in the 2008 Changemakers Ending Global Slavery competition.]
While his elementary school peers repeated addition and subtraction drills in a classroom each day, Narayan wove knot after knot at a Kathmandu carpet loom. For eight years of his early life, Narayan was a bonded child laborer without access to education, toiling up to fifteen hours a day.
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