July 2010. Radical islamists burned the brothel to the ground. Two were badly hurt. The rest were left with nothing. “We lost everything and had to jump onto the river ”, recalls Hasina. “We even didn’t have clothes to wear and we were forced to live for a month and a half out in the wild”. Nobody was arrested for the attack.

After countless demonstrations , and after media interest was stirred, sexual workers have earned the right to fight for their rights. “Society uses us to fulfill their human needs, but treats us like animals”, criticizes Ahya Begum, 37, president of the Prostitute Association of Faridpur.

Society has forced them to live in darkness while men love them and hate them in equal measure, demanding their services while trying to get rid of them permanently.  This is the intolerable contradiction that is their everyday lives.

Largely crowded and overpopulated, Metro Manila serves as a beacon of hope & a promise for a better life for countless wandering hopefuls from near and distant provinces who travel by land or sea from among the Philippines’ countless. Urban developing and planning failed to make headway since the Philippines’ capital region survived the destruction from the Second World War. Families who can not afford decent housing built their make shift shanties in private and government owned lands, including river sides and for some even under the bridges.

For a handful of families, there are those who do not thread in fear nor fear the “wrath” of the dead and found a place to call home among and along the crypts of the dead. In most places close to midnight, cemeteries are empty and barren places but in some cemeteries in Metro Manila, the living finds a living in the dark corner alleys of these cemeteries...

The brick industry is one of the largest in Bangladesh since the country lies in a flood plain rich with soil ideal for brick making.

During 5 months a year, entire families are employed at the traditional brickworks and children are expected to help carry the two-kilogram bricks. Children do not go to school and they face a future with little opportunity.  There is no focus on safety equipment, so the most exposed workers suffer from respiratory problems, premature arthritis, and other diseases. 

Employees work 12 hours a day for a daily wage of 120 taka (USD 1.70) for men.

The Masai of today remains intact with much of its tradition existing and has ably resisted the influences of the Western world but in the process of adopting some changes is slowly and surely taking roots.

The changes being brought about by external influences is slowly transforming the Masai into something of life lived by the rest of the world albeit in a dire situation

The Masai is transforming and the unique colors of their once vibrant nomadic life is turning into the standard hues of life as seen by the rest of the world. Time will come, the Masai would be just a name for a tribe that once traveled the plains of Northwestern Africa, a memory of a once living civilization.