BANGLADESH: Walmart project to empower apparel workers
Author: just-style.com | 9 February 2010
US retail giant Walmart is taking steps to improve the lives of apparel workers at factories in Bangladesh making clothes for its stores, by offering them workplace skills and literacy training.
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