June 2, 2007

Life of a Day Labour of Bangladesh

To live in the world is hard for the poor people. They are living hand to mouth. They are giving their energy to build up the civilization. All day long they are working and working sweating head to foot. Abbus Uddin Bapari is like one of them. He is a day labourer. He earns his livelihood giving severe physical labour. He is an uneducated person. He said that he had no chance to be educated. His home district is Barisal. Leaving his family over there, he has been to Dhaka for searching work. Now he earns Tk 250 per day. On the street, he hammers with all his strength to break the hard peach.

What a laborious task! The poor labours of our country eat hand to mouth. They can eat properly. How they will do thi kind of hard work. Yet he is working for his family. Like him, the day labours of our country are giving their strenuous labour for the society, for state and for modern people. But what we see these people are neglected in the society. Abbus has two sons. He wants to educate his sons so that they may not be come to this type of task. He faces a problem when he does not have any work. He is not sure about his future. What will be in the next day, he doesn’t know. Notwithstanding his strenuous labour, he always keeps a smiling face. Really it is interesting.