A photo-essay on the working and living conditions of South Asian workers in the Gulf region

 

In the middle of the desert, in the Gulf region, scrap workers recycle all kind of metals and plastic. The only method workable is to do it manually. 10 hours per day for an average of $13, nearly one hundred laborers from Bangladesh and Pakistan dismantle usable parts from trash. The laborers live in the scap-yard itself, in abaondoned buses or huts made of steel sheets. Computer, TV, fridge: they manage to improve their living conditions with objects found in the trash. Some of them work also at night to pay back their visa fees sooner. It is often the whole family who collected its savings to send one of  its member to work in the Gulf.