New Year. Book festival at School. Early childhood new dream new day. The tenderness of the new book is evocative. The exception is the Brick field workers children. With bricks, they burn with their parents. Due to lack of books, no child education program in Bangladesh is interrupted anymore. But the children of brickfield workers who are deprived of such facilities. The example of providing such a large number of textbooks for free in the world is rare, but the majority of the children of the brickfield laborers are not touched. Brick water pollution, the threat to the environment and public health. Yet the brickwork does not stop. Although brick and mortar is threatened, there is another big issue that has been ignored by all.

But this did not escape the eyes of Fojit Sheikh Babu. And that is the writing of the children of the laborers. Children of working laborers are deprived of education. Which is a long-term detrimental aspect of the country. Millennial may not like to talk, more than a photograph can. Fojit Sheikh Babu has pointed out a serious contradiction between society and the state in such numerous pictures. Numerous women are working in child labor. The tears in the baby’s appetite are drenched in the sweat of the mother, which again flies through the flames of flame. The minimum environment for the development of a child is when didn’t get it brickfield workers are on their children’s forehead, education is far from over. These children, who have grown illiterate beyond the mainstream, are our shameful inability.

According to the report of World Bank and UNDP, the number of bricks in the country at present is about 7,000. Although about 50 percent of it is illegal. And the children of the entire 7,000 brick-and-mortar workers are deprived of education. From the first of the winter to about six months of the year, the laborers work in the quarters. Workers live in slums around the country. When they are done, half of the year is over when they return to the village. At that time, no school is admitted. In this situation, children would not be deprived of education if any government or private NGO or organization stood by them. If the landlord builds a large house next to the brickfield, there will be a large number of students who are deprived of education if they have foreign or domestic support.

In the mid-eighties, Babu had to pay for his studies due to lack of books. Photographer Babu has highlighted the radical change in the education sector of Bangladesh. He wants to spread the message of Bangladesh’s success in education through his photographs from deep passion. This exhibition by Fojit Sheikh Babu demanding the education of the children of brickfield workers is a personal endeavor.

This is not the first of Fojit Sheikh Babu’s initiative to highlight the crisis and success of Bangladesh in limited capacity. In his first photographic exhibition ‘Stop the Climate Change’, he not only highlighted the horrors of Bangladesh’s environmental disaster, but also called for awareness to protect the endangered nature. His second exhibition, ‘Save the River Shitalakshya’, attempts to warn about the suicidal tendency of river pollution in the chemical industry. The exhibition was held at the Central Shaheed Minar at Shitalakshya in Narayanganj after the National Museum. The ‘Save the River Buriganga’, organized by Aliens Frances in Dhaka, demanded that the Buriganga be captured and polluted. His sixth photographic exhibition was held in Paris, the capital of France, in a successful ‘ childhood with Book’. Sheikh Babu collected the praises of the beauty of Paris and the slide of ‘Why is Paris beautiful’ in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. After that, the Who and the New ‘Boat People’, the seventh photographic exhibition on Myanmar’s planned torture, rape and genocide, and justice for Rohingya people at the Ages Hill University and Shilpokala Academy London individually in the UK? By delivering a huge message to the world community about the Rohingya. Immediately after the Rohingya demanded rehabilitation in Myanmar, Canada organized a photo exhibition at four locations, including the Down Town Metro Hall in Toronto.
In this connection, from around 27th February, 2020 to 28th February, 2020, at the Dhaka Reporters Unity, a photo exhibition ‘We Want Education’ children of brickfield workers was demanded for education. Rehana Akhter Photo Journalist Ittefaq, Abul Hossain photographer and Md. Golam Kiveaya Simon photographer are collaborating with the photo.

Fojit Sheikh Babu
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