In Bangladesh nearly 4.9 million children between the ages of 5 and 15 involved in different types of work, mane of them with little or no pay of the 301 occupation children are engaged in, 48 are categorized as hazardous. Many working children of both sexes have no access to education, with the result that they become trapped in low-skilled, low-paid work that further cements them into the cycle of poverty.