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Aug 2014 back issue
by Min Myo Nyan Win
These images were taken at a privately-owned work site where wrecked ships are dismantled and mended in Dala
Township, in Myanmar. The owner buys wrecked ships and extracts the usable materials for resale. Timbers may be
reused for making furniture or building houses for example.
The average wage of the workers is just $4 US. There are no health and safety restrictions or guidelines and if workers
are injured, there is no compensation or insurance.
A husband and wife working together at work-site in the evening.
Retaking the usable lumbers from ribs of a wrecked timber ship for recycling.
Recycling timbers.
Removing old nails from the timbers.
The workers taking a rest after lunch.
Resting after lunch.
Down time between jobs.
A quiet cigarette before work starts again.
A wife waiting for her husband to return home from work.
The worker's sons playing amongst the wrecked ships on
the site.
Retaking the usable lumbers from ribs of a wrecked timber ship for recycling.
The worker's sons playing amongst the wrecked ships on the site.
The feet of a worker standing on the floor of a wrecked ship says something about his hard life.
