Children As Young As Six Work In Bangladeshi Shipyard
By Rebecca Lewis @RebeccaSLewis
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CHILDREN of school-age are pictured working at a shipyard near Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh
At least seventy children work in the dock alongside more than 500 adults.
The ship are made for local use inside Bangladesh.
The children are paid as little as $7USD a day (£4.40).
Some of the youngsters start work from the age of six.
The conditions are dangerous.
The children have no little formal training.
And there is very little safety equipment to protect them.
The youngsters must work through the blistering heat.
The children work alongside menat the shipyard.
According to UNICEF, there are 7.4million working children from the age of 5-17.
Of this number, 1.3million are children working in hazardous conditions.
Just under 13 per cent of the children aged between 5-14 are in engaged in child labour.
The children occasionally have down-time and can be seen playing cricket in the yard.
The children grow up with no formal education.
But the children often have no choice.
They come from poor backgrounds and must support their poverty-stricken families.
Children As Young As Six Work In Bangladeshi Shipyard
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