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30 Jan 2015

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Traidcraft

Traidcraft Video highlights damage done to 2 lives by actions of UK companies

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The video highlights two people whose lives have been devastated by the decisions and actions of UK companies.Jitu’s wife worked in the Rana Plaza factory building in Bangladesh. The building housed numerous garment factories making clothes for the UK high street.On April 24 2013, the entire eight story building collapsed...Now he is now bringing up their children on his own...The other person featured in the video is Cecilia. She lives in southern Nigeria and used to make a living collecting shellfish from the rich waters of the Niger Delta. Overnight her living was destroyed when oil leaked from a pipeline owned by Shell.