What Are People Doing To Improve The Conditions Of Slums + What Are Their Motivations?

1. 5. Neza-Chalco-Itza, Mexico City, Mexico

2. What Do I Already Know

2.1. I know that people around the world are taking action to help these different people around the world like NGO’s and Governments. I know that the world is developing in a way that the people living in poverty are going to go the at least the green group, but this will take time.

3. Sanitation

3.1. Rats are everywhere around the beds

3.2. They sleep on floors and if lucky get a small mattress

3.3. Their urinals are made on the side of a lake where there is a small room, the room has a hole on the floor which they need to pee and poo in, all of that goes into a toxic lake

3.4. They walk in poop and fight over plastic to get things which would give them money

3.5. There is toxic water there

3.6. The slums are also like swamps sometimes

4. Recycling

4.1. Trash has been thrown out and recycled and organised so that they can be sold for money

4.2. Slums together recycle 80% of Mumbai’s waste

4.3. People are recycling, and they have recycling sections, different people recycle different things

5. Well-Being

5.1. People are recycling, and they have recycling sections, different people recycle different things

5.2. People are very supportive in the land

5.3. They are very religious

5.4. They like their homes

5.5. People are more kind and caring, they work as a community

5.6. People need larger houses to fit bigger families

6. Crime

6.1. There is crime

6.2. People rob others

6.3. When houses are destroyed they might have to start robbing others for money.

7. Jobs

7.1. People are recycling, and they have recycling sections, different people recycle different things

7.2. People have very informal jobs, mostly related to recycling different materials

8. Links

8.1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltBIHXyKi0I

8.2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmvFBCqVers&t=10s

8.3. http://www.citymetric.com/fabric/it-time-new-generation-nuclear-bunkers-2846

8.4. https://app.discoveryeducation.co.uk/public:session/login?next=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.discoveryeducation.co.uk%2Flearn%2Fvideos%2F6AE0742F-EE44-E411-A593-CD1B87A1052E%3FhasLocalHost%3Dfalse

8.5. https://borgenproject.org/5-largest-slums-world/

9. Struggles

9.1. During the time when tsunami's happen, many people living in poverty struggle a lot, they have to leave their homes only to see that they are broken when they come back.

9.2. Many people have to risk their hunger for the well-being of others in their family

9.3. Many struggle to earn even $2SGD a day.

10. 5 Largest Slums

10.1. 1. Khayeltisha, Cape Town, South Africa

10.2. 2. Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya

10.3. 3. Dharavi, Mumbai, India

10.4. 4. Orangi Town, Karachi, Pakistan