One of the first things people casually know about Dhaka is pollution. Unfortunately. It upstages the positive things Bangladesh’s capital has going for it, but how do you ignore the times when it feels like you’re breathing in a can of soup? Chunky soup.
The brick kilns in Dhaka are the main culprit making it the world’s most polluted city. And the people working there are on the front lines for all kinds of respiratory illness and physical injury. Recording interviews next to the incredibly loud thump of their machinery was practically impossible. However, what they had to say needed to be heard.
“It’s a very hard job, my brother.”
“Body pains, headaches, fevers… these are always with us.”
I always feel immense gratitude to the people that I get to interview, but especially so on this outing. These interviews were incredible and deep and they helped highlight the human faces of climate migration.
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