Children form more than 10 percent of the total workforce of Bangladesh. And they work as hard as the adults do. More than 64 million children make up around 40 per cent of the population.

Bangladesh achieved one of the world’s most rapid rates of decline in mortality of children below the age of five says UNICEF. But the success is undermined by the inferior progress in reducing deaths of newborns.
Most of the children not attending primary school are from urban slums, hard-to-reach and disaster-prone areas. Although Bangladesh has a high transition rate from primary to secondary school, eventual dropout rates are high.
Despite that, children do often smile a loved to be photographed.

I’ve shot this series on a Journey to Bangladesh in 2020, just before COVID closed the borders.

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