Labourers are producing glass bangles inside an industrial unit in the city of Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. The bracelets,
used as women’s ornaments during and after marriage, and traded throughout India and internationally.
A family home in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned as the ‘glass city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, has been turned into a
small-scale workshop. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children are hidden inside the homes of slum dwellers on the outskirts
of the city and are employed to complete the bracelets produced in the industrial units.
A family is decorating glass bracelets in front of their home turned into a small-scale workshop in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned as
the ‘glass city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children are hidden inside the homes of slum dwellers
on the outskirts of the city and are employed to complete the bracelets produced in the industrial units.
A family home in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned as the ‘glass city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, has been turned into a
small-scale workshop where a young girl is collecting and counting bracelets to be sent in bundles to other houses for further processing.
A family home in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned as the ‘glass city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, has been turned into a small-scale workshop
where young boys and girls are aligning the ends of bracelets produced in coils by factories nearby. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children
are hidden inside the homes of slum dwellers on the outskirts of the city and are employed to complete the bracelets coming from the industrial units.
Members of a local family are painting bracelets inside their home, turned into a small-scale workshop in the slum surrounding Firozabad,
renowned as the ‘glass city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children are hidden inside the
homes of slum dwellers on the outskirts of the city and are employed to complete the bracelets produced in the industrial units.
A family home in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned as the ‘glass city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, has been turned into a small-scale workshop
where young girls are decorating the bracelets produced in factories nearby. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children are hidden inside
the homes of slum dwellers on the outskirts of the city and are employed to complete the bracelets coming from the industrial units.
A young boy is moving bundles of just painted glass bracelets inside a house turned into a small-scale workshop in the slum surrounding
Firozabad, renowned as the ‘glass city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children are hidden
inside the homes of slum dwellers on the outskirts of the city and are employed to complete the bracelets produced in the industrial units.
A family home in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned as the ‘glass city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, has been turned into a small-scale
workshop where young girls are decorating the bracelets produced in factories nearby. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children are
hidden inside the homes of slum dwellers on the outskirts of the city and are employed to complete the bracelets coming from the industrial units.
Chotte, 10, a child with serious sight and hearing difficulties whose father died only a few months ago, is collecting bracelets to be painted
into a small-scale workshop in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned as the ‘glass city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. While his
mother sells the bracelets on the street, he is employed for 10 Indian Rupees (0.20 €) a day in this house to carry out basic duties.
A group of young women are decorating glass bracelets inside a house turned into a small-scale workshop in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned
as the ‘glass city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children are hidden inside the homes of slum dwellers
on the outskirts of the city and are employed to complete the bracelets coming from the industrial units.
Children are decorating glass bracelets inside a house turned into a small-scale workshop in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned
as the ‘glass city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children are hidden inside the homes
of slum dwellers on the outskirts of the city and are employed to complete the bracelets produced in the industrial units.
A mother (right) and her daughter (left) are joining bracelets using a gas flame inside their home, turned into a small-scale workshop, in the slum surrounding
Firozabad, renowned as the ‘glass city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 children are hidden inside the
homes of slum dwellers on the outskirts of the city and are employed to complete the bracelets produced in the industrial units.
The owner of a house turned into a small-scale workshop in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned as the ‘glass city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India,
is painting bundles of bracelets while a local boy is assisting him. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children are hidden inside the homes
of slum dwellers on the outskirts of the city and are employed to complete the bracelets produced in the industrial units.
A family is decorating glass bracelets in front of their home turned into a small-scale workshop in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned as the ‘glass
city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children are hidden inside the homes of slum dwellers on the outskirts
of the city and are employed to complete the bracelets produced in the industrial units.
A boy (right) is working in a small-scale glass industry in the slum near Firozabad, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. The air is filled with ammonia and
other chemicals making it hard even to breathe for only a few minutes before feeling dizzy and disorientated. The boy’s co-workers, a few years older
than him, are breathing-in the ammonia through glass pipes that once broken into small pieces will be attached to dresses as glittering decorations.
A young girl is decorating glass bracelets inside a house turned into a small-scale workshop in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned
as the ‘glass city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children are hidden inside the homes of slum
dwellers on the outskirts of the city and are employed to complete the bracelets produced in the industrial units.
A family home in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned as the ‘glass city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, has been turned
into a small-scale workshop. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children are hidden inside the homes of slum dwellers on
the outskirts of the city and are employed to complete the bracelets produced in the industrial units.
A child (left) is transporting unfinished glass bracelets from a house to another one on the road connecting two sections of a slum surrounding Firozabad,
renowned as the ‘glass city’, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children are hidden inside the homes of slum
dwellers on the outskirts of the city and are employed to complete the bracelets produced in the industrial units.
A young man (left) is selling bracelets at a local street market in Firozabad, renowned as the ‘glass city’, Uttar Pradesh, northern India.
Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children are hidden inside the homes of slum dwellers on the outskirts of
the city and are employed to complete the bracelets produced in the industrial units.
