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BEES to help child workers in leather industry of Bangladesh

12/03/2002

The Bangladesh Extension Education Services (BEES), a non-governmental organisation, has launched a project to alleviate the plight of the estimated 447 children that are currently working in 30 of Dhaka’s leather tanneries. The project will aim to stop recruitment of minors, remove those children already working and provide them with non-formal or vocational training.

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