The area of Sylhet has over 150 gardens including three of the largest tea gardens in the world. Nearly 300,000 workers are employed on the tea estates of which over 75% are women. The tea plantation workers in Sylhet are mostly ethnic groups. Unaware of their right, they are passing their lives as slaves of cultured people.
Silent Tears of Tea
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A homeless fellow is sitting on the footpath during a seasonal rainfall in Dhaka. Unexpected rain brings too many problems for dwellers of the city.
Homeless Person
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A girl is making abstract stone sculptures, to survive at this age of her life. The pain in her eyes can express the hardships of her childhood.
An Artist by Force
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These ladies from poor families of rural West Bengal have formed a self-help group with the support and financial help from local government, NGOs and rural banks. Now they are the earning members of their families and having a better life.
Fulfillment
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Tribal women husk paddy at a local farm. Though government has numerous assistance scheme for the tribal people, their life style remain unchanged due to their reluctance to education.
Farmers' Delight
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Small budget entrepreneurs buy and sell their earthen pots inside the Kenduli fairground.
Open Air Trade
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A young gypsy woman holds her son in front of her makeshift tent on the bank of Ajay River. General members of nomadic communities lack government amenities and their children seldom go to school. They make a living by doing odd jobs like snake charming or some form of petty business activities.
Mama's boy
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A fisherman on a beach in Bali is pulling the net, catching fish in the sea water in the morning.
Hopes Capture
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A vendor selling charcoal is counting today’s profits.
20000 IDR Pile-up
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Batik Tulis is a glorious cultural heritage and tradition of Indonesia. Batik Tulis of high value is always made by the elderly, who are artists devoting their whole life to Batik Tulis making.
Batik Tulis Nusantara Through the Length of Era
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Children from poverty-hit areas are celebrating Holi – the festival of colors in happy mood.
Spreading Smiles
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The street children are getting interested in books. An initiative has been taken by the government of India as free education to all poor kids.
Education Removes Poverty
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Sajina Khatton (L) and her brother Mustaq help her mother to change dress by covering up with a saree (Indian woman’s loin-cloth). They live in the footpath of Kolkata for last 25 years.
Backstage
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Seven families of a leather factory workers cram into a single room at a slum in Kolkata where each family has a chowki (wooden cot) to live on. A recent report says 33 percent of the city’s population lives in the slum with an approximate number of 1,600,000 and most of them are staying far below poverty level.
Shelter
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A street child shares stair with a stray dog at a roadside closed shop for a quick nap. India has the world’s largest concentration of street children and in Kolkata it has an estimated number of over 125,000 street children.
Siesta
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Growing population is a great problem in India. This woman only of 25 years age again became mother for the third time.
Population and Poverty
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Women are making baskets for their livelihood in Dhar of India.
Making Baskets
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Mangu Keriya is a basket weaver who received financial assistance from local NGOs to improve his business.
For Future
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A girl is collecting Tendu leaves for making Bidis (Poor man's cigarette). Many tribes in Dhar District are making Bidis for their livelihood.
Texture of Life
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As one of the tribal communities residing in the heartland of West Bengal, Mahali tribes traditionally meet the demands of their sustenance mainly by making and selling items made of bamboo like baskets. Thus they try to eradicate poverty and hunger.
Basket Makers 1
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