Bangladesh: Child Labour
12 minutes, 1997
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Is child labour a bad thing? In one of the first films on the 'other side' of the debate, we reveal 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.text...