Bangladesh children toil to survive
15/4/08
It was a routine raid by Bangladeshi police on a textile factory in a shadowy suburb of the capital, Dhaka. But the raid was not because employees there included a “workforce” of girls as young as 10-year olds. It was because the factory was operating illegally. The girls work for 12 hours a day, six days a week, for just 70 US cents a day. They say they are happy and consider themselves lucky. “I went to school for four years but I have to work because we are poor,” one of them said. Millions of children worldwide have no choice but to sacrifice their education in order to support their families.
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