For over two decades, award-winning photographer GMB Akash has been preoccupied by the lives of marginalized people in his home country of Bangladesh. Akash has spent 17 years documenting the plight of child laborers. His work has culminated in a heart-rending series of before and after photos, depicting children who are now able to attend school.
After seeing the same little faces time and time again, representative of the four million Bangladeshi children forced into labor to support their families, Akash intervened. He started helping impoverished families establish profitable small businesses, getting their children out of the labor force and into the classroom.
