The daily life of a tokai

Tokai streets, the garbage collector of the rain falls in the poor and homeless children and adolescents. The character was created Tokai Rafiqunnabi renowned cartoonist. Tokai society's underprivileged children through the character of poverty, deprivation and insecurity has depicted.

Millions of slum dwellers live in inhuman conditions in Dhaka city is. These poverty-stricken families to meet the basic needs of their children never to do. The consequence was forced to slum children are forced to take early earn. Have become an integral part of the general image of the city at the tokaira. Tokai age of 8 to 15 years, but more can be found Tokai age group. Tokaidera boy than usual number of Tokai little girl. Tokai illiterate and most of the city's new agamutaka. They are generally being a member of a large family or household purpose of the research is about. There is no father or mother of one of the most tokairai. Some are abandoned by their families.

Janasamagamapurna mainly at bus, train, ferry terminals, malls, highways, residential areas, near tokaira dumps in search of their income is too busy. The unhealthy environment for survival every day from 1 hour to 10 works. They are working day and night on an average daily income of 50 rupees. Tokaidera do not have any skills generally.

Tokaira sometimes independently and sometimes working group. Dupayasa income by selling their trash cans, pavement, road, sidewalk repair, or other space junk from throwing pieces of broken glass, discarded paper, bottles bottles, iron, plastic, etc., is collected and re-used accessories. Jute sack in the back of tokaira it keeps all the collected things. After heavy sack filled once they are sold at stores bhanarira. Cancel any of these things, they are often deceived because you do not have a fixed price.

Leaders of political parties in exchange for money tokaidera march, strike piketinsaha use different programs. Poor, uneducated and adolescent as criminal and immoral activities tokaira often are used. Sometimes drug dealers selling drugs tokaidera is utilized.

Various non-governmental organization has been implementing various programs for the development of tokaidera fate. Government aid agencies ucep (Under Privileged Children's Education Programme) 1973 since the city has been working with homeless children. Ucep the underprivileged children and adolescents up to a 4-year period, as well as providing technical education in primary education is also provided. Ucep has expanded its activities beyond the city. Patheghatera the welfare of children working in factories and at the end of 1980 with the aim of pathakali Foundation was founded in the name of another government-funded institutions. But the foundation of pathakali closed. [Nazneen Barrister Haque]

this photo was taken from the Anandabazar wastage deep o Chittagong, bangladesh

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