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Children, including 4-year-old Vasiliy (foreground, centre), hold the jigsaw puzzles they have just received, in the ‘Katusha’ kindergarten in the city of Kramatorsk in Donetsk Region – one of the areas worst affected by the fighting.

In the fashion industry, children work at all stages of the supply chain: from the growing of cotton, harvesting and yarn spinning to the different phases of producing garments in factories.

Creating Sustainable Change in the Bangladesh Garment Sector

Access to health, education, water services and sanitation is severely limited in Bangladesh’s ready-made garment industry, trapping garment workers and their children in a cycle of poverty and depriving them of fundamental rights. UNICEF Bangladesh is working with major textile retailers to implement programmes for garment worker communities in urban slums, supporting workers and their families through interventions in early childhood, health and nutrition, and education.

UNICEF is exploring a new initiative in Bangladesh bringing together global retailers and national factories, to work inside and outside the factory gates, by investing in communities, improving the impact of business on children, and using the leverage and influence of the private sector to effect sustainable change.

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