Bangladesh

>Wordless Wednesday #55: Working girl

Posted by The Insider on Oct 7, 2008 in Around the World, Bangladesh, culture, faces, people, sights, travel, Wordless Wednesday, work | 0 comments

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My entry for the Tuesday-Wednesday edition. Taken in Dhaka, Bangladesh in December, 2002. After getting off a bus, I chanced upon this pretty girl, roaming around with this mat on her head. Through my interpreter, I learned that this girl is one of the many displaced people in Bangladesh. She used to live along the Buriganga river and constant floodings swept away her family’s house and livelihood. This drove them to the capital of Dhaka where they have no permanent shelter and no food to eat. She earns money picking garbages and, sometimes, begging, too.

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