Sathi’s face is blackened with carbon dust from recycled batteries. Only 8, she often looks so black that children in her neighbourhood call her ghost. She earns less than Taka 200 ($ 3.5 approx) per month, recycling batteries at a workshop in Korar Ghat on the bank of Buriganga river in Dhaka.

(1999, Bangladesh) 

Sathi’s face is blackened with carbon dust from recycled batteries. Only 8, she often looks so black that children in her neighbourhood call her ghost. She earns less than Taka 200 ($ 3.5 approx) per month, recycling batteries at a workshop in Korar Ghat on the bank of Buriganga river in Dhaka.

(1999, Bangladesh) 

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