Prisoners of ropes

Dozens of kids engaged in worst form of child labour at rope factories in city outskirts; rigours apart, they routinely suffer from lung ailments.

At school going age these children are exhausting themselves working in a rope factory beneath the Second Buriganga Bridge at Keraniganj. Photo: Shafiqul AlamBig sacks containing coils of rope pile up on the floors of four rope factories under the Buriganga Bridge in Aganagar in Keraniganj as 40 children toil away all day long every day.