:00:09. > :00:18.On the outskirts of bank then sleep populated capital city, temp one,
:00:19. > :00:25.sits this slum. Individual identities get lost, out of the
:00:26. > :00:30.control of the poorest and most vulnerable. Girls have to grow up
:00:31. > :00:47.fast. For teenage girls living in this
:00:48. > :00:49.slum, life is tough. The choices and therefore the identity of his
:00:50. > :01:06.limited by the circumstances. I am here to meet three teenage
:01:07. > :01:11.girls, married, beaten and abandoned before they have even reached 16.
:01:12. > :01:32.The identities seem out of the control, but could that change?
:01:33. > :01:36.Amid the chaos of globalisation, Dhaka is a city bursting at the
:01:37. > :01:51.seams. This slum is home to thousands of
:01:52. > :01:55.girls struggling to be heard. 40,000 people live here, crammed onto this
:01:56. > :02:03.plot of land living cheek by Giles. It is a city within a city. People
:02:04. > :02:06.live and die here. It is a patriarchal society where life
:02:07. > :02:10.decisions are made for girls when they are still children. Unmarried
:02:11. > :02:16.women are at risk of abuse simply walking down the street, some girls
:02:17. > :02:20.are married off early. In Bangladesh, one in five married
:02:21. > :02:28.before the age of 15 despite it being illegal to marry under the age
:02:29. > :02:38.of the team. -- 18. Darlington narrow alleyways of the slum I meet
:02:39. > :03:58.17-year-old Asma. She was married two years ago.
:03:59. > :04:09.Around the corner from Asma live 16-year-old temp two, with her baby.
:04:10. > :04:48.-- Sharmin. Sharmin's husband left her after
:04:49. > :04:56.nine months when her father could not afford to pay at diary of 20,000
:04:57. > :05:22.Dhaka, about 250 US dollars. She was pregnant when she left. -- he left.
:05:23. > :05:28.Despite her husband leaving her, Sharmin still clings to the memories
:05:29. > :05:29.of being a wife and hopes he will come back. She keeps her wedding to
:05:30. > :06:24.those buried deep under the bed. On the very edge of the slum lives
:06:25. > :06:25.15-year-old Rokina. She moved here a month ago, looking for work with her
:06:26. > :08:00.sister, brother and father. About to lose her name like Rojina
:08:01. > :08:01.and hit on the role of wife is 13-year-old moniker. She lives here
:08:02. > :08:43.with her mother, lively. Despite only talking to the
:08:44. > :08:47.18-year-old boy, rumours spread and tarnished reputation in the
:08:48. > :08:51.community. At the end of the week she is due to take a rare day off
:08:52. > :09:39.from work at the garment factory to marry him.
:09:40. > :09:50.Having been left by her husband, Asma is discovering a new identity
:09:51. > :11:42.as a thread cutter in a nearby factory.
:11:43. > :11:47.Growing up in this slum is tough, but despite the harsh realities girl
:11:48. > :12:19.still worry about their appearance. Rojina save some of money from the
:12:20. > :13:03.factory buy Sample size beauty product is.
:13:04. > :13:06.When Rojina moved to Dhaka Gillette banter mother and siblings over a
:13:07. > :15:04.miles away at the family home. This soap opera is that Sharmin
:15:05. > :15:10.gloves are typically managers -- melodramas about the lives and
:15:11. > :15:24.romances abridge families. -- of rich families.
:15:25. > :15:38.Next door to her neighbour's room, her family drama out. Sharmin relies
:15:39. > :15:42.on her father Rafiq's income to support her baby. He works as a farm
:15:43. > :16:56.hand that has been off for a week now too sick to leave his bed.
:16:57. > :17:10.As the sun sets over this slum, factory workers return home.
:17:11. > :17:16.Asthma has finished her ten hour shift, but it won't be long until
:17:17. > :17:24.she starts the day all over again tomorrow. -- Asma. Sharmin's evening
:17:25. > :17:54.soap operas have just started. Rojina is about to make the weekly
:17:55. > :17:57.call to her mother back home.