Child Labor
This is David. David was 13 when his father left in 2022. He was forced to work in a quarry as the sole provider of a family with 5 siblings.
This is David. David was 13 when his father left in 2022. He was forced to work in a quarry as the sole provider of a family with 5 siblings.
“The work I do at the workshop is very painful. I often get cuts and bruises on my hands and I have to lift very heavy machinery,” says Sajal*, a child laborer in Bangladesh. “I don’t want to work here but I will starve if I don’t work. The kids I used to go to school with now bully me sometimes. They tell me that I don’t belong with them anymore now that I have to work while they get to go to school.”
“The work I do at the workshop is very painful. I often get cuts and bruises on my hands and I have to lift very heavy machinery,” says Sajal*, a child laborer in Bangladesh. “I don’t want to work here but I will starve if I don’t work. The kids I used to go to school with now bully me sometimes. They tell me that I don’t belong with them anymore now that I have to work while they get to go to school.”
*Name changed to protect identity.
*Name changed to protect identity.
"Last year, I was hit by a motorbike. I got 18 stitches in my head. After the accident, I couldn’t remember my friends for a while." - Child Laborer in Burma
"Last year, I was hit by a motorbike. I got 18 stitches in my head. After the accident, I couldn’t remember my friends for a while." - Child Laborer in Burma