Do
you still complain about the childhood you have been through, then look
at them..
Will the world
stop fighting and look at the other side please ….Child Labour…
Stop for a minute
and think!
Witness these
poor fellows fate in the pictures given below.
Jainal works in silver
cooking pot factory. He is 11 years old. He has been working in this
factory for three years. His work starts at 9 a.m. and ends at 6 p.m.
For his work he gets 700 taka (10 USD) for a month. His parents are so
poor that they can not afford to send him to school. According to the
factory owner, the parents do not care for their children; they send
their kids to work for money and allegedly don’t feel sorry for these
small kids. Dhaka 2008
A young laborer making
metal components at a factory. Dhaka . Bangladesh
13-year-old Liyakot Ali
works in a silver cooking pot factory in Old Dhaka . The children work
10 hour days in hazardous conditions, for a weekly wage of 200 taka (3
USD). Dhaka . Bangladesh . June 2008
7-year-old Jasmine
collects rubbish from a steaming rubbish heap on a cold winter morning.
She earns money to support her family by scavenging for items on the
Kajla rubbish dump. It is one of three landfill sites in a city of 12
million people. Around 5,000 tons of garbage are dumped here each day
and more than 1,000 people work among the rubbish, sorting through the
waste and collecting items to sell to retailers for recycling.
A young girl working in a
brick crushing factory in Dhaka .
Children at a brick
factory in Fatullah. For each 1,000 bricks they carry, they earn the
equivalent of 0.9 USD.
Hands of 8-year-old Munna
while working in a rickshaw parts making factory. He works 10 hours a
day and gets 8 USD for a month. Dhaka 2007.
Ten-year-old Shaifur
working in a door lock factory in Old Dhaka . Unlike his colleague,
Shaifur works without a mask.
Eight-year-old Munna
works in a rickshaw factory. He earns about 500 taka (7 USD) a month,
working 10 hours a day.. When the production often stops due to lack of
electricity, he has time to play. Dhaka 2007
Children are compelled to
work for long working hours with inadequate or no rest period.
Moreover, they are paid with minimum wages and enjoy no job security.
Many people prefer to employ young boys to maximize services for those
minimum wages. Dhaka 2006.
17.5 percent of children
in the aged 5 are engaged in economic activities. Many of these children
are engaged in various hazardous occupations in manufacturing
factories.. Dhaka 2006. My goodness...Pray, Pray Pray!
