Slum-like living quarters for labourers and their families next to the battery recycling factory at...

Only source of drinking water is one water pump installed at the end of the quarter. Both latrine and kitchen is communal and has to be shared. Housing, a space measuring approximately 12'X12'. Each of this basic living quarter costs about Taka 500 per month. People living in these quarters, particularly women and children, work in battery recycling workshop in the same area. There are hundreds of other informal factories and workshops inside and on the outskirts of the city of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The industry employs thousands of women and children. All day long women and children break used batteries to get reusable parts and tiny pieces of metal out of them. Once separated, these materials are sent to battery manufacturing factories and workshops that either reuse them or melt them to make other useful materials. Women and children in these workshops face some of the worst condition of life anywhere in the world. None of the children go to school. Although they work hard and need nutritious food, they hardly eat much. Its amazing that they still look happy and manage to crack a smile every now and then.