7 hours agoYou think you have a bad job, see how this guy sinks into the sewer for 8.5 euros a day (Photo/ Video
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Canal cleaners in Bangladesh are paid only 8.5 euros a day, and many die during the process. Tens of sanitation cleaners die each year in Bangladesh as they dive to clean the locks with a stick or just their bare hands. They pay 8.5 pounds a day at most, to swim [...]
Canal cleaners in Bangladesh are paid only 8.5 euros a day, and many die during the process.
Tens of sanitation cleaners die each year in Bangladesh as they dive to clean the locks with a stick or just their bare hands.
They are paid 8.5 pounds a day at most to swim through the polluted sewers of the crowded Daka capital without any protective equipment or glasses.
The city of 14 million suffers from an inadequate drain system that has become much worse than heavy rain, leading to frequent flooding.
Dacha City Corporation pays the men, who usually do their dirty work without a shirt, only between 4.50 and 8,50 euros a day to fight the scum produced in the narrow tunnels passing through the city.
They must hold their breath when they plunge into human remains and also deal with poisonous smoke released from the channel.
Many die each year from drowning, and an unknown number of others have health consequences from frequent immersion.
