Rocky, aged 7, working in a balloon factory. -- Child workers in Bangladesh earn no more than USD per week, working 6am to 5pm work everyday. Their earnings is given to their parents from the factory manager. Most of them are under ages of 10. In Bangladesh over a third of the population is under the age of 18 and almost seven million children between five and 14 have to work to help their families leads many families here to send their children to work and labor low enforcement in here is too hard. Child Domestic service is a widespread practice in Bangladesh. The majority of
Rocky, aged 7, working in a balloon factory. -- Child workers in Bangladesh earn no more than USD per week, working 6am to 5pm work everyday. Their earnings is given to their parents from the factory manager. Most of them are under ages of 10. In Bangladesh over a third of the population is under the age of 18 and almost seven million children between five and 14 have to work to help their families leads many families here to send their children to work and labor low enforcement in here is too hard. Child Domestic service is a widespread practice in Bangladesh. The majority of child domestics tend to be 12 and 17 years old. But children as young as 5 or 6 years old can also be found working. A survey of child domestic workers found that 38 percent were 11 to 13 years old and nearly 24 percent were 5 to 10 years old. Child domestics works long hours, getting up well before their employers and going to bed long after them. on 50 percent domestic workers work 12 - 14 hours a day. Irrespective of their gender, Child domestic carry out all sorts of household work. Boys often perform tasks like going to the grocery, cleaning the drain, talking the garbage to roadside bins, washing the car and sell nuts etc. On the other hand, girls have to iron the cloths, attend phone calls and serves the guests. The child domestic workers are often the least paid in the society, their remuneration ranging from 80 taka to 400 taka per month. In most of the cases, they hand over all their earnings to their parents, leaving nothing for themselves. in Bangladesh where there are nearly 5 million children between the age of 5 - 15 working in hazardous conditions in factories, garages and homes, in railway stations and markets, in small foundries - many for little or no pay at boys and girls who work do not have access to education and become trapped in low-skilled, low-pay work that further binds them into the cycle of the law prohibits child labour,
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