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Children in Tobacco Factories
They feel sick yet they have to work
One can easily count the ribcage bones of the 11-year-old bidi (local cigarette) factory worker. Stunted Monir Islam suffers from health problems such as frequent fevers, headaches, nausea and cough but has to work due to poverty.
30 May 2016, 18:00 PM