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"Dhaka, Bangladesh – It has been 10 years but the trauma of gasping for breath
under debris for more than 10 hours still haunts Rehnuma Akter.
On the fateful day of April 24, 2013, Akter went to work at a garment factory
in Bangladesh’s Savar city outside capital Dhaka that produced readymade
clothes for a British fashion brand.
An hour after her shift started, Rana Plaza, the nine-storey building that
housed her garment factory along with four others, collapsed into a heap of
bricks, machines and factory bolts.
Akter was lucky. She survived one of the deadliest industrial disasters.
However, by the time a weeklong rescue operation ended, a total of 1,134 lives
were lost beneath the rubble.
Akter, now 34, never worked in a garment factory again. After her stints as a
domestic help, she is now working as a cleaner at a private hospital in Dhaka.
“I can never go back to any factory. That memory of Rana Plaza still gives me
nightmares,” she told
Al Jazeera.
Like her, more than 63 percent of Rana Plaza survivors did not work in a
garment factory again, said a report by ActionAid NGO, released this year.
The Rana Plaza disaster had a profound and lasting negative effect on the lives
of its survivors. But for the readymade garment (RMG) industry of Bangladesh –
the mainstay of its $460bn economy – it brought titanic shifts."
Via
Future Crunch:
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