Shanty - Dharavi Flashcards
What
Largest slum in asia. Located in Mumbai, India
What life is like
- 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
Why people move
- move from rural areas for jobs
- Cottage industries –> guaranteed jobs
IMP Social Healthcare
- 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
SOL Healthcare Sion hospital
- 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%
IMP social educ
- 69% literacy rate
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SOL Education
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
IMP Social House
Residents live in makeshift houses made of tin and recovered matrials. Houses aren’t v stronf and can’t sustain harsh weather cond.
SOL House
- Comapny LaFarge Holcim delivers concrete to houses in rickshaws as the streets are very narrow –> make houses sturdier and more watertight
IMP econo Job
more than 20,000 cottage industries
A:
- Rural people get jobs
DA:
- Child labour
- unfavourable working cond. and long hours
IMP econo redev
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
IMP Soc Sanitation
- 1 toilet shared by 1440 dwellers
- Safety issues for girsl at night
- Inadequate/ lack of toilet allows disease to spread
SOL Sanitation
- 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
IMP Env Recycling
- Recycling zone where 80% of Mumbai waste gets recycled
- People look for useful materials
- however it isn’t good working cond.
SOL Recycling
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.
