We can celebrate International Women’s Day in our Basha production centres. The theme, #balanceforbetter, resonates as we see women working away on Basha handmade products, signing their name with pride on the items they made, sending their children off to school in fresh uniforms and a backpack full of
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At the age of 19, Layina* has already experienced a lifetime’s worth of horror. Thinking she was heading to a good job in abroad, she instead found herself sold to a brothel in Mumbai. She was eventually rescued, only to spend five years in a government home with few
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In Bangladesh, everyone wants to work abroad. We’ve all seen people come back with savings, set up their own business, and their status in the community is completely changed. I was so excited to find someone who was able to help me get a job in Saudi Arabia working
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I honestly did not know what to expect of my time in Bangladesh. It was one of those countries I had to look up on the map when I realized I would be spending a month in the small country. Of those the four weeks there, I spent 19
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A couple of weeks ago, mothers suddenly were rushing in from Basha’s jewellery department to snatch their children. It wasn’t time to go yet and they seem panicked. It turns out they had felt a tiny earthquake located in another part of Asia and were grabbing their children to
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‘We live like dogs, we can’t even afford to eat. It’s really hard, we’re just breathing now. Sometimes I can’t even find one client a week.’ Parvin told photo journalist Allison Joyce in an article published in the Daily Mail following the demolition of the Tangail brothel last year.
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Bangladesh’s transport stations and railways. This is where you go when you have absolutely nothing. You can sleep on the platform with your blanket and meagre possessions. Or you may even have a tent like structure that you fiercely claim as your own. It’s a place where everyone knows
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