i am my own business the european. the europeans everybody had to buy to play the critics they don't live with this that everybody discounting from europe is a totally i know they're about to head i said. our leaders are being exposed for stuff flying. that could change. over the last twenty years bangladesh has become a global center for leather production. this industry generates over three hundred

fifty million euros per year for the country. and has very bad suburbs the capital dhaka around three hundred ten there is field of twenty five acres producing the clothes and leather goods that flood the international market. more than fourteen million skins are treated every year in the slum warehouses in tanaris sit side by side. a nightmare situation for which we westerners are also responsible i heard was. all skins arrive like lists every day and each one of the factories where in one of the has very bad tenor is an average sized factory employing around thirty workers it's here. that the cycle of leather turning begins.

every day around one thousand tonnes of skins arrive directly from albatross all over the country to be stored in this hangar. goat in cowskin derive coated in salt so as to avoid rapid decay. but if you want to say i was in the morning we get the deliveries and we cover the skins and lie rinse them and dry them how they was mixed after applying the chemicals we place them in the tanning drums and then we wash them i don't know why that was they are never going to get there but we do this three

times over and in but then again there are. a large proportion of the litter bags jackets and other accessories we buy today are produced in tanneries such as this the working conditions are antiquated nothing has changed in thirty years neither machines nor techniques. telling is a long process to remove the parasites the facts in the head as workers carry handled scrape and treat the tons of skins using numerous chemical products and wearing only gloves for protection.

i am cutting the small pieces of skin that had been damaged during washing. sherman is one of the forty cells and working with turner is more than twelve hours a day nonstop manual workers are hired on a daily basis without training all contracts. few women are able to withstand such physically exhausting and wearing labor. i wear a scarf to protect my hair otherwise i would lose it because of the lime water. and when the water runs over my hands it burns away my skin and what i.

meant in the others put up with these working conditions for the simple reason that today in bangladesh forty percent of the population is unemployed getting a job in eternity is considered a lucky break. the main problem in the tannery is the smell was. that i think it makes us sick blackens and it's a way of our skin. i don't know but people like me have no other choice so we have to take the job that. i work long hours like i have to cut the small leather pieces and unwrap the new skins they arrive. here do i walk sometimes the skins are crawling with parasites and the smell. and you got to find it takes away my appetite.

if i remember my first day of work in the factory. the smell was so disgusting that i threw up and fainting like so many guy had the noise of the machines pounding in my head until it would burst. but i didn't actually i was sick for a week after but now i'm used to it. and doesn't know how old she is she may be twenty she's been working in a time reset to lose on a good months she can earn forty euros i can't let. her go down this is my mother's house.

was a kid and this is my daughter. rosa post three year old daughter thank you to get it done and then and i'm sure. you get that. back and that there is nothing at the factory no medical support. and that i have no friends and there are no safety regulations do you know when i start every day at eight am and there's no paid overtime because how they should you know i never get any holidays and if i miss half a day they counted as a full day dad i don't know if i'm sick it's the same they count me out sent one so i have to go to work even when i'm ill. i don't like either wise i have no money left at the end of the month. my money back was. but

that's about. sherman spends ten euros on her rent and for this price she gets one tiny room in which to house the whole family. if you like her the majority of the slums five hundred thousand residents are dependent on the other industry. is enough that the abortion i never get a pay rise. down i asked for one in january but nothing happened they said to be happy with what i had or leave. the child after paying my rent and giving some money to my parents there's almost nothing left to give up but i had a better salary i could save some money but it's impossible right now. we're your mom i need money to bring up my daughter and send her to school there's no one to show you how can i educate her properly without money then i'm sure of the. one question i've had a hard life will be the same for my kids. charmaine would like to

be able to count on her husband to feed the family. what i think. what time did you get back home. at five and you left because i went to the fish market he goes to show what time should leave for work at noon i caught a cold i didn't feel well ok i am that's why don't you go to work at noon because you could call and me how do you think i'm going to go to work at eight. little mamas preparing dinner. thank. you.

i never wake up i don't get up. but. i shan't. let it go we have no electricity and no gas here so it's difficult to cook partnership that's going to send it. back to hide like i'm more comfortable and cleaner life. i keep cleaning but everything gets dirty so quickly and i had to get. we live with the stink of the tanneries. we have every kind of problem here. to buy nobody but we can't afford to go anywhere else so i have to stay in this disgusting environment going on resume what i thought it was but that i guess. i.

never did. thank you it was a population of twelve million i exist to watch and is a serious problem so she percent of the population don't have any sherman and her husband are among those who have the privilege of access to a water pump which they share with the neighborhoods but it's not drinkable and has to be paid for if you don't. sammy my husband pulls rickshaws back but he only works part time friday night then his that's why i have to work at it. was a little guy. good. wealthy british style. time to explain the.

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that i work for a miserable wage and they yell at me that you should have made a little but yeah. i guess this morning i didn't go to work because i didn't feel well he doesn't have to look under the bus was unhappy about that he got angry with me and he told me i would lose my job if i didn't come mother but how can i work in this state my hands and my feet hurt so much. less a worker's feet and hands are eaten away by the chemical products used throughout

the turning process these products are extremely toxic for the skin but also when inhaled the telling factories have no ventilation system. all the workers are exposed to danger but especially those who are in direct contact with the chemicals . proximately three hundred products necessary to soften and the skins ammonium acids wrestling fans a c as old crow mates hydrogen sulfide and more. inflammable explosive and corrosive they use requires training the workers never receive. we use all the derivatives of potassium. and ammonium. when we rinse the skins we use lots of acids. and we put them in the drums it can be

dangerous. for the new workers it's dangerous but after they get used to it was. to put my hands there i k. there's no problem the batteries because i've just used chemicals. aqim it when there's a few doctors working in his area bag. eat you know. this liver evolution we're going to do if you. do do you want to do that you are going. to fix the colors on the skins the workers use mercury huge quantities are used for blue and black this process has been outlawed in france for twenty years because mercury permeates the body and contaminate all the vital organs.

their union will you know stop she's going to let. me use. them. in two thousand and ten at apex one of the country's so-called model tanneries three workers died and ten was seriously injured in an explosion caused by an error in the handling of chemicals. i guess there are accidents you have to be careful throughout the whole process especially when turning the drums on and off and when you put the chemicals in. we often drop the sacks on our feet touch the chemicals.

one third of workers will be injured. but god says fifty years now the term is unions representing twenty thousand workers has attempted to improve working conditions for its members but to no avail. one of the pocket of the. one of the to be honest conversation and their behavior towards us with the shows that their priority is to give us the least they can because truth for many years is that a union our union has put forward peaceful solutions. that they show no interest in will not. run with it i mean i think with the tight shit going on with the so we have no other choice than to revolt from an adult up i don't know what. long live the union strike no workers unite workers of the world unite workers of the world get up and fight the most obnoxious the more almost all of us

a sick they're not going to the bosses have never taken any health measures for a night and they don't want doctors in the factories caring for the workers you know but i'm like that's why every day here at work is die from leather sickness look at the gum or see. when the workers take to the streets to demand an increase in the minimum wage the police welcome them with guns and ammunition. in two thousand and ten several thousand demonstrators and three died sixty were injured and hundreds were arrested. i'm not sure from the way to the leisure industry that is not a risk to health among local. and national we want the bosses to respect the

employment and health legislation of this country you know think because she doesn't have the money committed to by ignoring the law they make bigger profits lobbying the government. as it does allow i do this to protect her from evil like. that as a letter the letter not the legalese but oh. my daughter is three but she still can't walk properly there are a lot. she has trouble eating and falls over a lot and. i think she still can't top that one of allah now she's very weak

and her health is very fragile her and there are no not over but i can only afford to feed her rice and biscuits right back ok i guess i will give it a. new day castelli. and. sherman has no health protection the only way she can obtain health care is at the same sold dispensary which also has free consultations. oh ok. ninety percent of the of the workers develop an illness as a direct consequence of their work few live beyond fifty.

percent what are your symptoms of the six months i've gradually been feeling worse and worse the more i work out the weaker i get. where do you work than at the other factory. yeah women working in canneries are often frail. they suffer from vaginal infections their very joint pain fever and coughing. children want to. finish it off and have respiratory complications in the morning this is the man of roe so debilitated hardish from their body little suffering from parts. and gastritis. simply. showing also worries for her daughter who is not growing well i'm coming to. visit

where is your child while you are working that if she stays of my little brother. i'm here for the last twenty years to write home to see if you live here. in the film you're doing the publishing. company. you believe if you want to. be. in his early bag no one is it. would tell us he is three hundred times higher here than in the rest of the country but sherman and her family have no other choice than to enjoy the working conditions and to live in the sun breathable environment if you come from. this is your first time you can. live here you can. live there i'm coming from long sleeve. i

don't feel really bad. but if you take the. dogs to see. this guy maybe. recently and despite her age sherman's mother was full. to go back to work in an open air factory in the center of the slum. can't get out of here there's some terrible smells better out there what can we do . i don't know if we had rice in our belly what would worry about it but it can't be our priority today. in the countryside life is peaceful. in other countries there there is no work no food and in the winter.

of a dish. that does happen. every year eight hundred thousand people leave their own fertile land so fertile lands to crowd into his every bag and its surrounding area it's. a willing to accept such conditions because the turner is of their only hope. sharmeen is among these climate refugees she's originally from. the northern island of bangladesh i was engulfed by water in two thousand and five and i understand that. we had to come here yeah because the river overflowed and that a lot of them and house was washed away.

i will tell. you and having a little thing i. did to my parents of no where else to live so they stay here with us. only did they tell you that the on the flight and i didn't know what is your but i'm also from poland and i ended up here because my home was swept away i built my house seven times and seven times it was carried away by the floodwaters i have no more land to live on and no money to buy more there was no more work for us there that's why i came to talk about it when i'm on the rails i work at the tannery for forty five euros a month it's the only way for me to survive. on this yet. among showman's friends and family some children also have to work to help their parents. sometimes you know your view of this is all of that and that is that. the man i'm supplemental for this and.

yet it. is not. my family it's your mother who works instead of your father and you need me. the. what defines a country's success look faceless figures of economic growth. for a factual standard of living.

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