Our awareness of sweatshops—and outrage over them—is something that seems to only get stirred up when something tragic happens, like the 2012 fire in a Bangladesh garment factory, or the building collapse just a year later in the same country. A new Norwegian reality show featuring bloggers visiting a sweatshop in Cambodia is hoping to change that.
Produced by one of Norway's largest newspaper Aftenposten, the show sent three of the country's most well-known bloggers—Annikden Jorgensen, Frida Ottesen, and Ludvig Hambro—to a sweatshop in Cambodia's capital city of Phnom Penh. The results are incredibly emotional.
Blogger Hambro is especialy disturbed by a trip to a Mangostore, where he learns that a $35 blouse there costs more than a month’s worth of rent. “I think it was tough to be at Mango,” Hambro says. “Those who make the garments should also be able to afford them.”
After visiting the sweatshop, as well as the homes of some of the workers, Hambro says, "You think you know [conditions here] are bad. But you don’t know how bad it is until you see it.”
Watch the clip of the bloggers' visit below (in Norwegian), then head to Cosmopolitan U.K. to learn more about their trip.
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