| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/05/14, 9:27 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Last month, 18-year-old Shapla was just another one of thousands of garment workers employed in a factory in Savar, a suburb of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka.
Today she is a handicapped survivor of one of the worst industrial accidents in history: the collapse on Apr. 24 of the massive Rana Plaza, a building housing five factories, that
buried scores of workers under a wave of cement and glass.
The death toll reached 996 on Friday, though officials and families are still counting the bodies and searching for others beneath the rubble.
“I am desperate about the future,” Shapla said, echoing the sentiments of hundreds of female apparel workers like her who lost their limbs on that fateful day.The young mother is now recovering in a hospital in Dhaka after her hand was amputated. Having survived the collapse, Shapla is considered
one of “the lucky ones”, but she is loath to see the bright side, as her
handicap will almost certainly prevent her from finding work.
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