 Bangladesh:
Child Labour
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Is child labour a bad thing? In one of the first films on the ‘other
side’ of the debate, award-winning journalist Ron McCullagh reveals
that for many children “child labour” is the best hope they’ve got of
escaping absolute poverty. Titu is fourteen and he’s worked for over
half his life. He works in a hot and fume-filled battery factory in
Dhaka, an unhealthy place for any worker let alone a child. Yet with
his earnings Titu pays for a tutor, school books and part of the rent
for his family home. He works, he tells us, because he wants to get a
good job and make sure his children will have a better childhood than
the one he is experiencing.
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