Born to work ( Child labour in Bangladesh)
Bangladesh
According to the UN Children’s Fund report, more than 6.3 million children under 14 are working in Bangladesh. Many of them work under very bad conditions; some of them even risk their life. Factory owners pay them about 400 to 700 Taka (10 USD) a month while adults get 3000 to 4000 taka. Some influential people in my country don’t want me to reinforce the bad image of Bangladesh. But this is not my intention. My intention is to start an improvement. Showing the working conditions of these children isn’t only meant to create shock-reactions – it could be the beginning of a change in the way of thinking for parents who force their children to work because of extreme poverty, for factory owners and for western consumers. To take these kinds of pictures, I usually go to the factories with a friend who pretends he wants to talk to the boss while I run into the working place. My intentions are to point fingers but to show the complexity of this situation: the parents who send their child to work in a factory because they are poor, the child that has to work to earn a living for the family, the boss of the factory who is being pushed by big garment company to produce more for less money, and the Western consumers who buy cheap clothes. I think it is impossible to abolish child labour completely in Bangladesh in a very short time but I am sure it is possible to improve the working conditions of the children and to bring more children from factory work into the schools.
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by anthropographia
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