German magazine Der Spiegel said that women such as Tsenia Begum working in textile and sewing factories targeting the West in Bangladesh see their children only during holidays that may not exceed 11 days a year.

In a joint article between von Fonia Viber-Steinhouse and Kazi Alvi, the newspaper sheds light on textile workers in this Asian country of 161 million people, based on the story of the worker Tsenia Bagum, whose annual vacation does not exceed 11 days, that she is keen to spend with her daughter completely. This forces her to travel at night despite insecurity and spend six euros, that is, two working days' wages on the ticket.

Mother for some days

She works at Gomeom (25 years) for a company used to supply H&M clothing, and now sends her goods to Walmart, and she maintains at an unnamed textile factory in an industrial area in Chittagong, a gray cement city of two million people on the Bay of Bengal, which is the second largest site For textile production in southern Bangladesh.

On the last day before Eid Al Fitr, all the more than 4,600 registered textile factories in Bangladesh close to 20% of the country's GDP, enabling 4.5 million workers to enjoy a one-day vacation.

Begum booked the bus ticket a few weeks ago, although she believes that it is not easier for her to travel, but she is not only going to spend the holiday and celebrate one of the most important holidays in Islam, but will return to the home as a mother even for two weeks a year.

"I have no choice, I have no jobs in the countryside," the magazine said, according to a recent survey by Oxfam Australia, a non-governmental organization, that a third of textile workers live separately from their children.

The magazine report indicated that Bangladesh is considered an economic success story among developing countries, where per capita GDP has increased sevenfold in the past four decades, from $ 227 to nearly two thousand dollars, and the textile industry in particular has contributed to this economic recovery.

Made in Bangladesh

On her trip northward on the bus, she passes before my eyes in Gome, the Western-style textile factories, where her country exports about half of the clothes she makes to Europe, where many Europeans knew "Made in Bangladesh" as a small sign of their clothes.

However, the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory building in the capital, Dhaka, was the largest accident in the history of the country's textile industry, with more than 1,100 people dying under the rubble and more than 2,500 injured, making the "Made in Bangladesh" sign suddenly become synonymous with fatal working conditions, As the magazine report says.

Many academics and unionists say that media and public interest has already improved safety conditions in Bangladesh's factories, as more than 220 textile companies, including H&M and Primark have signed a safety agreement with unions in the country, making nearly a third of the country's factories have Now fire alarms and extinguishing tools.

"Anyone who does not comply with these conditions does not get new contracts," says one of the directors of the textile company in which she works in Bgum. "So the name of the company was changed and she was transferred to Bgum to a small factory. The director whispered," Nothing has changed, "which Bgum says.

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Some freedom

Although Begum works six days a week at a rate of nine hours a day, and earns about 88 euros a month, sends a quarter to her parents every month over the phone, she says this is better than her housekeeping, especially since she is not educated.

"When I go home from the factory and finish my work, I am free," says Pagom. The two authors commented, because this freedom is a small room and a shared toilet, and a small salary increases the price.

"I wanted to live in a house, to have a daughter and a son, and to take care of my husband," said the worker. She was already 18 years old, and her husband was working in the same factory, but soon he stopped returning to the house at night and then left her pregnant.

In the village

After seven hours on the bus, she lands in a cloud filled with beef with a basket of beef in her hand and walks between the village houses in the middle of a green plain, before a girl wearing a red dress and embraces her before she escapes and looks at her without saying anything, she is her daughter who was born seven years ago She left after four weeks of birth to take care of her parents.

The two writers describe the family’s encounter and the position of their daughter, whom they respect a lot, because they are the only ones who consider them the head of the family and differ from their lifestyle, and her return is a feast for her daughter who gets new shoes and some chocolate.

Despite her parents ’concern for her daughter, Begum says she feels bad conscience, because she leaves her parents with Sadia’s care, especially as she has fears that her daughter may not get an education the way she prefers.

But for her, the work she does is not free, nor is it an investment in her daughter’s future, but rather she is planning to pay off her parents ’debts, when she carries debts to treat her in hospital when she fell ill years ago.

The magazine pointed out that some parents never bother to return to the country house, but rather reside in their workplaces in or outside Bangladesh.