Call for alms

I was awoken by the sound of men chanting, The sound seemed to fill the flat and if fact the whole building, it echoed up through the narrow passageway between the houses. I got up and went to the windows and then to the roof of the building to try and see where the sound was coming from but couldn't see. I learnt later that the source was a group of severely physically handicapped men who lived on the streets and who made their way around the the city calling for compassion (alms). Every Friday they passed the house, in the morning.

Listen: Sounds of Dhaka - Men chanting

The noise of the clanking in the background is of other men working on a nearby building site, hammering steel reinforcing rods.