Forida's story is not rare.
Forida's home lacks facilities like safe, internal running water.
Forida makes clothes bound for Australia as part
of the global fashion industry.
Forida says that if she were paid a little more money,
she could one day send her son to school.
We must challenge the policies and practices that are fuelling inequality,
or women like Forida will continue to be left behind.
That Forida's home lacks facilities like safe,
internal running water and is built beside a polluted pond is linked to this global challenge of rising inequality.
Forida, who earns about 35 cents(AUD) an hour as
a garment worker, subsists on watery rice when her family's money runs out so her son may eat better.
Forida looks after her family when they are sick from water-borne diseases
and only eats watery rice so her son may eat better when they run out of money at the end of each month.