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If you never have been poor, you don’t have to work like this, from cold dawn to dusk. What will you do when you see the underage kids working in brick industries? In order to have foods or to live somewhere, they work. These children come here in brick industry with their parents who work and make copious number of bricks. Yes, everyone needs a job/work for bread and butter. So, the people who are economically poor or from lower class family come to this place in every winter and live there in temporary huts for 5 to 6 months. And to resist from the cold, they out paddy straws on the roof which makes them warm. During this time, the children go to nearby school and some of them do not. I don’t have any ideas whether it is because of their economic crisis or are their parents illiterate? Instead they work all day with their parents and play with other kids who also do not attend the school. Few years ago, I visited this place as I walk around this brick industry area every...