Women working as "head porters" on the Irrawaddy riverfront · Mandalay, Myanmar
The bank of the Irrawaddy River, adjacent to Myo Patt Road roughly between the Migun Jetty and the Kywe Zoon Jetty in Mandalay is the area where lumber traders offload river boats coming downstream from the north, and either move the wood to their storage areas along the river, or directly onto some custumer's truck parked on the beach.
Attached to the embankments of the riverside are large encampments where hundreds people live in ramshackle housing and unsanitary conditions. And most of them are connected to the work along the waterfront.
Among them are many young women who work as "head porters", carrying big logs or baskets with big chunks of wood from these riverboats ashore. A very dangerous job - navigating unstable planks and uneven surfaces, and very hard on the body.
Women working as "head porters" on the Irrawaddy riverfront · Mandalay, Myanmar
The bank of the Irrawaddy River, adjacent to Myo Patt Road roughly between the Migun Jetty and the Kywe Zoon Jetty in Mandalay is the area where lumber traders offload river boats coming downstream from the north, and either move the wood to their storage areas along the river, or directly onto some custumer's truck parked on the beach.
Attached to the embankments of the riverside are large encampments where hundreds people live in ramshackle housing and unsanitary conditions. And most of them are connected to the work along the waterfront.
Among them are many young women who work as "head porters", carrying big logs or baskets with big chunks of wood from these riverboats ashore. A very dangerous job - navigating unstable planks and uneven surfaces, and very hard on the body.