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    preconceived ideas of what someone is like that led to the persons behaving in ways that match the stereotype. “Slum dogs” or slum dwellers never wanted to end up the way they did. Immediately after someone is born racism starts to be taught. Almost always if someone is put down they start to believe themselves that they are not good enough and inferior to someone else. Most of the slum dwellers in this documentary don’t have a stable family to rely on‚ or people with enough confidence to tell their family

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    away with and visit a near by slum to distribute them. We also decided to perform a street play to lay stress on importance of education and promote literacy among them by pursuing them to attend the classes which we will run in their locality on every Sunday in the evening. Once everything was decided we contacted our principal and informed her about our idea. She was overwhelmed and not only gave her consent but also parted the school mini bus to take us to the slum on Sundays for this good cause

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    Slums

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    Slums Introduction A Slum refers to informal settlements within urban areas or cities. The informal settlements depict inadequate housing and miserable condition with reference to living standards (Meade p 43). In the slums‚ numerous individuals seek housing facilities within small living spaces. The slums also lack basic local authority services such as sanitation‚ collection of waste‚ water‚ drainage systems‚ street lighting‚ and emergency roads. Most slums also lack schools‚ hospital‚ and public

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    Slums: India Mumbai Slum

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    A slum‚ as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat‚ is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing‚ squalor‚ and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations‚ the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between 1990 and 2005.[1] However‚ due to rising population‚ and the rise especially in urban populations‚ the number of slum dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums[2]

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    Pavement Dwellers

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    I have chosen India‚ in specific the Pune Pavement dwellers‚ for my report on the plight of the urban poor. Poor people from rural India migrate to cities for various reasons such as the result of famine or drought back home‚ search of employment‚ lack of adequate housing‚ landless status‚ and lack of irrigational and good agricultural facilities despite owning land. These particular groups of people called pavement dwellers move from the rural areas to the urban areas thinking their chances

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    slums in India

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    THE CONDITIONS OF PEOPLE WHO LIVING IN INDIAN SLUMS The definition of "slum" varies from country to country. In India‚ The Slum Areas Improvement and Clearance Act of 1956 defines ’slum areas’ as places where buildings: are in any respect unfit for human habitation; and are by reason of dilapidation‚ overcrowding‚ faulty arrangement and design of such buildings‚ narrowness or faulty arrangement of streets‚ lack of ventilation‚ light‚ sanitation facilities or any combination of these factors which

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    Cliff Dwellers

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    Cliff Dwellers The Cliff dwellers‚ Native Americans of the Anasazi culture who were builders of the ancient cliff dwellings found in the canyons and on the mesas of the U.S. Southwest‚ principally on the tributaries of the Rio Grande and the Colorado River in New Mexico‚ Arizona‚ Utah‚ and Colorado. The dwellings were large communal habitations built on ledges in the canyon walls and on the flat tops of the mesas. The cliff dwellers were farmers who planted crops in the river valleys below

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    Slums in Mumbai

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    toll on individuals living in slums in poor areas such as Mumbai. Since Mumbai is a pretty expensive place to live in‚ it is home to some of the world’s richest and poorest people. “Today‚ over half of Mumbai’s population of over 15 million lives in settlements‚ occupying only 8% of the city’s area” (Anand and Rademacher). It is the largest slum in the world. The government thinks it is best to get rid of the slum because the land is very valuable‚ but demolishing this slum would cause disastrous effects

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    Dharavi Slum

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    Dharavi Slum Location Dharavi slum is located in Mumbai‚ in India. The area is shown the photograph to the above. Characteristics and Conditions Mumbai has thrived economically in the recent years and now has one of the highest property prices in the world. Despite this the majority of the population live in squatter settlements such as Dharavi. In one square mile of Dharavi there are one million people and many more people arrive to live in the same cramp conditions. The ‘homes’ found in Dharavi

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    Urban Slums

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    Urban Slums: Reason for Concern? The definition of a slum varies from one form to another depending on the background or country from which an individual comes from. Someone from a rich country may define slums as old run-down buildings‚ whereas someone from a poor country will define slums as un-serviced haphazard constructions. The universal definition of a slum as found in the dictionary is said to be a heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and filth. Slums are seen

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