They will work as delivery persons to earn a respectable living through Pathao Food, the company said in a press release on Monday.

To provide seamless service to the customers, they are being equipped with smartphones, bicycles, and ID cards.

Pathao, a leading ride-sharing, e-commerce and food delivery platform in Bangladesh, and Apex, one of the leading footwear brands, organised a programme at the Justice Shahbuddin Ahmed Park at Gulshan in Dhaka yesterday.

Atiqul Islam, mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), and Asaduzzaman Noor, MP and eminent cultural personality, were present at the programme as chief and special guests respectively. Syed Nasim Manzur, managing director of Apex Footwear, and Fahim Ahmed, president of Pathao, were also present.

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