THEY are cold, they are lonely and some are earning as little as BD22 a month.
They are part of an army of migrant labourers from the Indian sub-continent helping to build our beloved Bahrain breeze block by breeze block.
They came unprepared for what has been one of the coldest snaps for 20 years.
They shiver and suffer in ramshackle housing units until a team of devoted helpers, led by a remarkable woman in her seventies, passes by.
Salma Bala is known as Bahrain's "Mother Teresa" and the devout Muslim is on a mission to help care, feed, clothe and convince all in the kingdom to show greater respect to these men.
"Two hands that serve are holier than two lips that pray," she explained.