The True Cost Page #2

Or the product price has to rise

or manufacturers have to close,

or cut costs to operate.

Cut costs and ignore safety measures

It was accepted as part of doing business in this new model,

until one morning in April,

when an event, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh,

It took a hidden side of fashion headlines.

State media in Bangladesh

say an eight-story building collapsed near the capital Dhaka,

killing more than 70 people.

Rescue crews work around the clock,

looking through the rubble, trying to find

many survivors as possible.

They have hundreds dead,

hundreds still may be buried alive,

and officials in Bangladesh say

the factory owners ignored the order to evacuate.

400 dead, yet it is believed that hundreds are missing.

Garment workers in Bangladesh pay the price of cheap clothes.

A large crowd has gathered near the building,

many families searching for their loved ones,

and they say you can still hear people screaming

under the rubble, crying for help.

Many are simply losing hope.

From where he was working,

I approached the stairs.

When I got them

the building collapsed and my legs were trapped.

The side walls fell on my legs.

I realized that I could not get my legs, I gave up.

I came to mind hundreds of thoughts.

I could not even mourn.

Anyone who, like me,

I had written about the problems in the supply chain,

particularly for Fast Fashion,

and he tried to articulate

how he was moving risk

the most vulnerable and lowest paid.

You try to articulate it, but you could never imagine

that there would be so catastrophic illustration

what you were trying to say.

And Rana Square for me was like a horror story.

Two weeks after the disaster,

and the death toll amounts to the shocking figure of 931,

making it the worst disaster textile history.

I think one of the most deeply impressive things

Rana on disaster Square was the news

the workers had already pointed to the direction

cracks in the building.

They had already noted

that the building was structurally unsafe,

and yet they were forced to re-enter.

Many survivors wonder

how they could be forced to return to work

when management knew the cracks in the building,

and concerns of workers on the day of the collapse.

Many clothes in US stores is made in Bangladesh

by workers who earn about $ 2 a day.

Last month, a textile factory collapsed,

killing more than 1,000 people,

and a few months before, a fire in a factory left more than 100 dead.

And as bodies are recovered from the rubble,

another factory in Bangladesh this morning caught fire,

leaving eight dead.

Disaster stories in garment factories

They monopolized the news,

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