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Thursday, May 1, 2014

Children of poverty: The factory workers as young as FIVE who toil in Bangladeshi recycling plant every day



  • Compelling photographs show dust-strewn children in recycling plants and making coloured balloons in Dhaka
  • Minimum working age in Bangladesh is 14, but 93% of child labourers work in small workshops and slip under radar
  • Last week the city marked the first anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse which killed 1,135
  • Disaster prompted a surge in factory unions and inspections, but many still work in dangerous conditions


  • Caked in dust and wading through recycled plastic, these are just some of the thousands of children who work illegally in Bangladesh.
    More than a million children are involved in dangerous work in the country - despite the minimum working age being 14, according to the International Labour Organisation.
    These compelling photographs were taken in the capital, Dhaka, a city where one year ago a garment factory collapsed killing more than 1,100 people.

  • Youth: At 10 years old, Momen (pictured) is too young to be working at this balloon factory in Dhaka but is like many youngsters employed in small workshops
  • ARTICLE HERE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2616932/Children-poverty-Factory-workers-agd-FIVE-toil-Bangladesh.html
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