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Meet the women who make your clothes

Rumi Akter is working as garment workers for three years now. She is living along her sister, who also works in a garment factory. As helper she fold fabrics and match them. Her target is 1440 pieces in 8 hours. With overtime she gets 10000 taka which is not enough for her living in Asulia. She can barely send money to her parents. Asulia, Bangladesh. Photo: Fabeha Monir/Oxfam

Rumi

Rumi works up to 56 hours a week and is only paid around $2.50 an hour. She dreams of one day finding a good job and starting a family.

Meet Rumi
Rita, a garment maker in Bangladesh, What She Makes, Photo: Fabeha Monir/Oxfam AUS

Rita

Even when working seven days per week, Rita constantly grapples with how she can afford the basics.

Meet Rita
47 years old Ajirun Begum is a Rana Plaza Survivors. She is unable to come out from the fear of that incident and her health condition has degraded ever since the accident. When she worked at Rana Plaza, her fixed salary was 4500 Taka. For last ten years she is on pain medicines and has no income. Savar, Bangladesh Photo: Fabeha Monir/Oxfam

Ajirun

Ajirun survived the Rana Plaza collapse and now lives with chronic injuries. Ajirun hopes accidents like Rana Plaza never happen again.

Meet Ajirun