Fabeha Monir

Photojournalist

www.fabehamonir.net

The Cost of Your Clothes

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Location: Bangladesh

Nationality: Bengali

Biography: Fabeha Monir is a Dhaka based visual journalist who uses still images, text and video to provide multi-faceted storytelling for editorial and non-profit clients. Her editorial clients include The New York Times, The Guardian, Stern Magazine, Elle... MORE

Bangladesh reopened its garment...ures and precausion. Bangladesh

Bangladesh reopened its garment factories that supply some of the world’s biggest clothing brands amid Covid19 lockdown and since then still continue operation by taking safety measures and precausion. Bangladesh

A textile worker is working inside factory. Tongi, Bangladesh

Textile workers are at work. Tongi, Bangladesh

29 years old Sahana Akter is a ...h complications. Tongi, Gazipur

29 years old Sahana Akter is a textile worker who lives with her son and husband in a one bedroom house in Tongi. The money she earns is insufficiant to rent a decent house near her factory. So she is living in the slum and trying hard to cotninue living despite her health complications. Tongi, Gazipur

Amid poverty wages and abuse at work, Bangladeshi female textile workers produce clothes for international brands. These women do not get a working wage and the effect of this has a rippling effect on the economy. Workers’ rent often remains unpaid and when ill, they cannot afford to rest and loans are needed to cover treatment expenses. They walk to work, wear cheap poor-quality clothes, and with no spare money they cannot take care of their families. They are motivated to fight for a better future and hope that the western brands they work with and the consumers across the globe will eventually advocate for them and in doing so, accelerate Bangladesh’s economic growth.