Guest Photographer/Photojournalist: G.M.B. Akash — Child Labor - Part Two

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[Zoriah's Note:  I am happy to present Part Two of G.M.B. Akash's wonderful series of images documenting child labor. If you missed the first part of this series, you can see it here . Please visit Akash's website  and sign up for this blog's feed  for future posts from myself, Akash and other guest photographers and photojournalists.]

Child Workers taking rest in a silver cooking pot making factory. For one week of work they will get 200 taka (1 USD = about 70 taka), working nearly 10 hours a day from early morning to late afternoon. June 2008. Dhaka. Bangladesh. 

A child works with a sieve at Bhollar Ghat. At least 10,000 people, including 2,500 women and more than 1,000 children, are engaged in stone and sand collection from the Bhollar Ghat on the banks of the Piyain River. Building materials such as stone and sand, and the cement which is made from it, are in short supply in Bangladesh, therefore commanding a high price from building contractors. But the average income for these workers is around 150 taka (less than 2 USD) a day. 

Shilu works separating sand and stone on the banks of the Piyain River.

 

A child works in a textile factory in Dhaka. It is common in Bangladesh for children of poor parents to work in various hazardous and labor-intensive workplaces to support their families. The average child laborer earns between 400 to 700 taka per month, while an adult worker can earn up to 5,000 taka per month.

The owner of a textile factory beating a child laborer. The boy works for ten hours a day and earns about 1 USD.

A child working in an aluminum cooking pot factory in Dhaka. More than 17 percent of all children aged 5–15 are engaged in economic activities.

Alamin, 8, taking lunch in a dump yard where he works.

10-year-old Roubel works at a factory making ornamental grilles for windows. He is already a skilled worker after working as an apprentice without pay for two years. He now earns 500 taka, or around 8 USD, a month.

A child rests on sand at Bhollar Ghat on the banks of the Piyain River. 

 

A child tends to dried fish on Sonadia island in Bangladesh in Patuakhali. Dried fish is a popular Bengali food, and 50,000 men, women and children are employed in the industry in the coastal areas. Around 300 tons of dry fish is produced each season, which runs from November to April.

Two child laborers eat lunch during a break at the factory where they work. 

 

A child worker collecting stone from the Bhollar Ghat on the banks of the Piyain River.  

Children from the rural area of Gaibandha work at a brick-making factory in Dhaka. 

Children carry heavy baskets of stones on their heads at the Bhollar Ghat on the banks of the Piyain river.  

Child working in an Aluminum cooking pot factory in Dhaka.

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