This is the reality of life in many Malaysian construction sites. Construction workers are almost exclusively made up of low-wage migrant labour, most of whom do not have valid work permits, and are housed in slum-like conditions no reasonable person would find acceptable.
One Bangladeshi worker even described conditions as being “worse than the garbage dumps in the slums of Bangladesh”. He tells us how there are only three toilets for 400 workers.
Every year, thousands of Bangladeshi youths arrive in Malaysia to study in its colleges and universities. But behind many of these colleges are human traffickers who exploit these students.
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