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RTÉ Radio 1 Extra: Forgotten Girls of Dhaka

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Thursday 28th April 2016 at 5.30pm

Farhana Haider visits Dhaka, Bangladesh, to meet the teenage girls who were married and then abandoned by their husbands. What does their future hold?

If you are poor, and faced with limited choices, what kind of life will you lead compared to others? In the globalised world of opportunity, many of us are discovering and shaping our identities through new possibilities, while others less fortunate are having their identities shaped by circumstances out of their control.

Farhana Haider enters the world of a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to meet a group of teenage girls who were married and then abandoned by their husbands before they even reached 16 years old. Are their identities now fixed for the rest of their lives? What chances do they have to define who are they are? How does the tight-knit slum community hinder or help shape the girls’ futures? Farhana hears them explain in their own words who they are and what they think the future holds.