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The brick worker

Bangladesh


Toiling under the sun, the brick workers carry out back-breaking and exhausting labour..
Ranging in age from pre-teens to grandparents, they work long hours to churn out millions of bricks to fuel a construction boom. The brickworkers have a target to reach of 3000 bricks a day per person. For this they earn 75 thaka (75 euro cent).
The cities of Bangladesh - one of the world's most densely populated countries - are growing fast, and there's a never-ending need for cheap construction materials.

Cheap construction material that sometimes costs lives, as we saw this week in Bangladesh.