Sex Workers --> Fair Trade Textiles in Bangladesh

During the first graduation ceremony at the training centre of The Salvation Army’s knitting factory in Savar, Bangladesh, there were lots of smiles and tears.

Twenty women had completed their course and were ready for employment. Textiles are Bangladesh’s main foreign export earner. The women who received their certificates should be able to earn a living.

The group of women were dressed in their most colourful saris. Their hair was neat. Bangles and earrings completed the picture. Prior to this they were sex workers in the horrid brothels or on the narrow and crowded streets of Old Dhaka.

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