Children show photographs of their parents who went missing in the Rana Plaza disaster. They are still to know what happened to their parents as authorities wrapped up the rescue and search operation yesterday, 20 days after the nine-storey building collapsed on April 24. The photo was taken at Adharchandra High School playground on Saturday. Photo: Anisur Rahman

Though the losses are irrecoverable, the families of the deceased and the injured in the Rana Plaza collapse are either getting compensated or receiving aid to start life anew. But what about the young kids whose parents are still missing after the end of the rescue drive, and therefore cannot claim any compensation, salary or seek financial help?
It is not known how many people are unaccounted for as authorities called off the rescue and search mission yesterday, 20 days after the disaster.
In most cases, these kids had single parent. So, they have become virtually orphaned and have nobody to take care of.
The father of five-year-old Sumon "disappeared" one month after his birth. Her mother took a job in the garment industry and was getting along until April 24 when the nine-storey building where her mother worked collapsed.
"Her husband did not return after leaving home one day. We could not trace him as we did not know his village home," said Amena Begum, grandmother of Sumon.
She said her daughter was their only breadwinner as her husband could not do anything but selling milk from their domestic cows.
Sumon is a nursery student.
Amena Begum has been looking for her body for the last 20 days, during which 1,115 bodies were recovered and 2,438 people were pulled alive. A total of 3,553 had been trapped. The total death toll stands at 1,127, with 12 having died in hospital.
"What will I do with this kid now? How will I bring him up? Neither I nor my husband have the capability to work anymore," said 58-year-old Amena.
Two-and-half-year-old Sirajul has almost a similar story. His father "went missing" when he was six months old and her mother was raising him alone until she went traceless following the collapse.
His grandmother, however, recently identified the legs of his mother Mala Akhtar by the salwar she was wearing. The upper part of her body from the waist is missing.
The guardians of both Sumon and Sirajul cannot receive the salaries of their parents and compensations which the authorities are giving on the basis of the bodies.
Their future is now in uncertainty. And so is the future of Akhi, 6, and her brother Joy, 4. Their mother Nasima Akhtar joined the garment industry after her husband abandoned her when she was carrying Joy.
There are plenty of these stories.
Shimu, left by her husband, was struggling to survive with her three-year-old daughter by working in a garment factory in Rana Plaza and vanished in the tragedy.
Khadiza Begum and her six-month-old son Sohan also face bleak future with her husband, a garment worker in Rana Plaza, missing after the collapse. The distraught woman wailed, "I could console my son if we had a grave of him."