Brick-making provides a better income than agriculture or other jobs available in rural Bangladesh, but it is dangerous and often devastating to workers' health.
Accidents are common and workers have no protective gear, save for what they are able to cobble together themselves. 

Dust from the brick-making sites spreads on the wind to nearby towns and villages, clogging the lungs of young and old and generating health problems the country is ill-equipped to handle.
And about half of Bangladesh’s bricks are baked with the use of coal, making them the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the country, with several million tons emitted annually.

These workers were so happy to show me around their work place. Proud men just trying to make a living.

PS: Leaving for England now, I'll continue the series next week.