But truly telling Imran, I can't sleep these days.

I'm just sleepless these days. That is my situation.

No food means no lives. And at the end of the day, you know, I think that's what this comes down to, it's choosing between people's lives and their livelihoods.

All the failures, I mean, cancellation, not getting money, everything just put it in the worker's shoulder.

Why it is always us, why it is always us has to suffer.

Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion and welcome to the

BOWF podcast. In this latest special episode focused on the impact of the coronavirus crisis

on the global fashion industry,

we go to Dhaka Bangladesh, where I speak to Kalpona Akhtar, the voice of 4.2 million garment

workers, whose collective contribution accounts were more than $34 billion in export revenue.

But Kalpona explains how a series of decisions made across the value chain of fashion, starting with retail cancellations and factory shutdowns, have forced these workers who are least able to afford it to bear the brunt of the impact of the crisis on their day-to-day lives, leaving millions of people destitute.

To understand how the fashion industry must bear the responsibility

of these decisions to safeguard the lives and livelihoods of these workers, here's Calpona

Octer inside fashion.

Hello, Calpona. How are you?

I'm good at this point, though we are in a pandemic, but it's still fine, but in a difficult

situation. Yeah, I mean, before we get started on talking about the garment industry in

Bangladesh and the impact of the pandemic on the garment industry.

I just wanted to get a sense of how things are in Bangladesh just generally.

What's the environment like?

How are people doing?

You know, what's the situation?

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