WATCH: The Women Behind the World Cup
As the World Cup gets closer to crowning the greatest soccer team in the world, we want to take a minute to send some props to some of the women who make the game possible — the female factory workers at the Forward Sports factory in the Pakistani town of Sialkot.
These women earn approximately $182 a month to construct the FIFA approved balls for the tournament. Approximately 90 percent of the factory’s workforce is female: an anomaly in Pakistan, where women rarely work outside the home.
Photojournalist Sara Farid set out to capture life inside the factory. Find out more on the Weekly Flickr blog.
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