Life
of a garment worker in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is an
undeveloped and highly populated country of 147610 km² with a population of nearly
160 million. Garment manufacturing is the biggest industrial sector of
Bangladesh. The total number of garment workers is 1.6 million, 80% are women.
A garment worker is
noticeable in Dhaka city. Most of the workers are young women. They are very
hard working. Their life is full of struggle. In Bangladesh almost 70% or 80%
workers are young girls. They come from different areas of the country. They work from 8 am. to 8 pm. So we should
realize this inhuman condition of these young girls of the garments industries.
Most of the garment
workers lead very poor lives. They come from different areas of the country and
join various factories of Dhaka and Chittagong. Most of them live in slum
areas.
They come with other garment worker of their native villages. They do
not get facility of education, good food, transportation facility,
accommodation etc.
The young poor girls do
not afford to get education for poverty. Most of the girls are of 16 to 30
years. This age is proper time for education but they are deprived of that and
they are involved in garment sector.
A garment worker earns
very small amount of money like tk. 4000 to tk. 5000 only. Within this money she
has to lead their life. She has to manage all the things within the small
amount of his fee including feeding her family members, giving house rent,
transport cost, cost of clothes etc. A garments worker has to reach to garments
very early morning. He works there long 12 hours from 8 am to 10 pm. Sometimes she
has to work up to midnight and he also does not get any vehicle at that time
for returning home. So she has to come back home by walking. She does not get
extra holiday except Friday and special occasions like Eid. If he does not go
to work for any emergency personal work, then he does not get money for those
days. In summer, he faces problems because of hotness. Also he does not get any
vehicle. Then it becomes impossible for him to work in so much hot weather. In
rainy season, for rain he cannot go outside. If he goes, then he gets wet. In
spite of this, she has to work in garment.
In winter, she feels cold and
suffers from diseases. But despite of this, she has to work in garments.
In spite of all
problems, a garment worker works with his hard and soul. She wants the
betterment of the country.
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