Linh works in Quality Assurance in South Vietnam, and was a peer educator for the RISE Financial Health program. Linh, 31, has worked at the factory for eight years and lives with her parents, brother, and sister.

Het, 27, is a team leader on a garment production line at the Mekong Fashion Garment Factory in Dong Nai Province in Vietnam. She has worked at the factory for six years and lives close by with her husband and four-year-old daughter.

Fatma is 26 years old, and single. She has worked at the factory for eight years in the packing department.

Basma, is a 28-year-old garment worker living in Port Said with her husband, Mohammed, and their three children. Basma has worked in a cutting department for 10 years and was promoted to supervisor in 2021. Her husband has a small business buying and selling clothes.

Huy is 31 years old and she has one child. She lives in Phnom Penh, near the garment factory, where she’s worked for four years as a line leader in quality control.

Champi is 24 years old and married, with one daughter, aged three. She lives in Phnom Penh near the garment factory where she’s worked for seven years, currently as a cutter.