Shopping for a better life

Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 2:06 a.m.

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Imagine a grocery shop selling all your basic goods at a discounted price\\u2026 and if you buy enough you also get free health insurance. It might seem too good to be true, but stores like this have been introduced at some factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Social entrepreneur Saif Rashid is trying to get better health care to some of the millions of garment factory workers who are on low wages. For them, to lose a day\\u2019s pay by taking time off sick can be disastrous and affording decent health care is almost impossible.

Now, with this scheme, they can get health insurance at the same time as getting discounts on their shopping. We find out how it\\u2019s changed some workers\\u2019 lives and why some people don\\u2019t take up the opportunity.

Reporter: Chhavi Sachdev\\nProducer: Tom Colls

(Photo Credit: BBC)

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