For 14 years, SOHAY, a grassroots non-governmental organization (NGO) funded by the Global Fund for Children and Comic Relief, has been working in slum areas of Dhaka to get child laborers into school. It focuses on children working in hazardous conditions. The classroom is one of 23 urban development centers that SOHAY has set up in the capital. The centers prepare children for primary school with classes that help them catch up on their education. Once they are in primary school, the children get help with their homework at the centers. Alamin, ten, who used to work in a plastic factory, attends one of the centers. His father is a street seller and his mother a part-time domestic worker. They are all happy that he’s now in school and away from hazardous work. His friend Rabi says he wants to forget his past in the factory. “I like school,” he says.
Who is Alamin?
A former factory worker A teacher in one of the centers A 14 year old from SOHAY A factory owner who is against child labor