Shanty - Dharavi

Question 1

What

Answer 1

Largest slum in asia. Located in Mumbai, India

Question 2

What life is like

Answer 2

• Densely packes
• Little privacy
• Washing clothes on the street
• No private bathrooms –> unsafe for women, travel far at night
• Houses made of brick and tin

Question 3

Why people move

Answer 3

• move from rural areas for jobs

- Cottage industries –> guaranteed jobs

Question 4

IMP Social Healthcare

Answer 4

• Too many people, too little healthcare
• Lack of hygiene, sanitation, proper disposal systems, kids playing in open sewres etc. people fall sick
• Doctors get 4000 typhoid and diphtheria cases a day
• Other diseases - Leprosy, cholera

Question 5

SOL Healthcare Sion hospital

Answer 5

• In 1950s - 50 bed facility, now 1400 beds
• In 1970’s Arminda Fernandez was dean
• Over 3000 cases of sick people a day, mostly kids dying after home del, and other disease
• 77% of sick infants died
• Arminda got rid of all old incubators and made makeshift ones with lamps, stopped formula and had breastfeeding, stopped communal baths, started the first human milk bank in Asia for babies who can’t feed from their mothers
• Now malnutrition has dropped to 30%

Question 6

IMP social educ

Answer 6

• 69% literacy rate

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Question 7

SOL Education

Answer 7

NGO - Reality gives

• Three pronged approach - soft skills, english and com sci
• Aimed at women to get educated and earn
• Age range - 8 - 35 years
• Offers basic com skills course to allow students to get jobs or take higher courses
• Promotes learning english as that increases hireability
• Future incentives: Pay students to come learn

Question 8

IMP Social House

Answer 8

Residents live in makeshift houses made of tin and recovered matrials. Houses aren’t v stronf and can’t sustain harsh weather cond.

Question 9

SOL House

Answer 9

• Comapny LaFarge Holcim delivers concrete to houses in rickshaws as the streets are very narrow –> make houses sturdier and more watertight

Question 10

IMP econo Job

Answer 10

more than 20,000 cottage industries

A:
- Rural people get jobs

DA:

• Child labour
• unfavourable working cond. and long hours

Question 11

IMP econo redev

Answer 11

Redevelopment plan to raze all the shops and houses and make it into a middle class housing area

A:

• New houses for all registered dwellers with good conditions
• New jobs

DA:

• Unregistered suffer
• Newly housed dwellers may find it difficult to provide for self
• Neg impact on dharavi economy bc all cottage gone

Question 12

IMP Soc Sanitation

Answer 12

• 1 toilet shared by 1440 dwellers
• Safety issues for girsl at night
• Inadequate/ lack of toilet allows disease to spread

Question 13

SOL Sanitation

Answer 13

• People in Dharavi solved
• 1933 - group of women persuaded city authorities to let them build a toilet with working facilities and room for cartaker
• since then 366 toiler blocks have been built serving 350,000 people
• Installation costs 50,000 USD. Slum dwellers need to provide for money till govt. money comes
• Need to pay monthly fees to keep it clean

Question 14

IMP Env Recycling

Answer 14

• Recycling zone where 80% of Mumbai waste gets recycled
• People look for useful materials
• however it isn’t good working cond.

Question 15

SOL Recycling

Answer 15

ACORN Foundation wants to teach ragpickers scientific methods of safely handling wast
They also push for govt to get citizens to pay a 1% cess that will go towards the ragpicker income and equipment
- The Dharavi project works with ragpickers to raise awareness about waste managemnt
- Another part of program runs health clinics, workshops etc. for ragpcikers for informal education and art.