A kid looks at the sky through a narrow window in a shanty house at Korail slum in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh on July 20, 2009. The slum is home to


A kid looks at the sky through a narrow window in a shanty house at Korail slum in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh on July 20, 2009. The slum is home to at least 100,000 citizens from the low-income groups who work in diverse sectors in the city. According to a 2014 government census, the majority of Dhaka's slum residents are readymade garment workers, rickshaw pullers, domestic helps, construction and transportation workers, small business owners and service sector employees, students and housewives. Korail residents constitute a significant section of the urban workforce that runs the city.


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