Before coming to Singapore, Sharif was the owner of a bookstore and managed several employees. However, the bookstore suddenly closed down, and he was desperate and came to Singapore alone to find another way to make a living.
After paying an agency fee of S$8,000, Sharif was introduced to work on a construction site , and had a wife in Bangladesh who was three months pregnant at the time.
This looks like a difficult road from which there is no turning back.
After coming to Singapore, Sharif found it difficult for him to adapt to life in Singapore. Not only do I have to squeeze into a dormitory with more than 20 construction workers, but I also have to work 28 days a month, 12 hours a day, from 7 am to 7 pm. Sometimes rushing to a project, there will be no day off for several months.
However, for such a heavy work, the daily salary is only 18 Singapore dollars, and most of the money has to be remitted back to Bangladesh for his wife and son…
While he was working hard day and night, people in his hometown had a deep misunderstanding of him. They thought that Sharif could make a lot of money in Singapore and live a luxurious life.
Sharif said aggrievedly: Even after spending 11 years here, I never enjoyed life, I was always struggling.