Child labour
The working children of Bangladesh perform in many different capacities - as domestic workers, garage helpers, and factory workers, porters in railway stations and markets in hazardous conditions. Many boys and girls do not have access to education and they are doing low-pay works that further binds them into the cycle of poverty. The picture is especially miserable for children living in urban slums.
Children with no access to education have little alternative but to enter the labour market and are often forced to perform dangerous or exploitative work.
The government must do something immediately about this.
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