Photo © Shahzad Noorani (DRIK-Bangladesh)

Holding a bamboo near her home, Sathi (8 years old) smiles. Her face is blackened with carbon dust from recycled batteries. Often she looks so black, that children in her neighbourhood call her ghost. She works in battery recycling factory at Korar Ghat on the outskirts of Dhaka. She earns less than Taka 200 ($ 3.5 approx) per month. She lives with her mother and older sister in a little bamboo structure constructed over the river Buriganga which alone cost Taka 410. It is a constant struggle for she family to meet other expanses for the entire month with remaining 300 Taka...

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