mumbai slums

Ashok Rathod founded the Oscar Foundation in Mumbai to keep children away from addiction, dropouts, and child marriage. With its ‘No School, No Football’ rule, the foundation blends education and sport, empowering thousands of children to dream, learn, and lead.

Arun Prabhu, a Chennai-based architect, has constructed a house on top of an auto rickshaw that could be a long-term solution to illegal encroachments in metro cities.

"The vulnerability of the location and weak construction of the self-engineered shanties leaves thousands defenseless during monsoons. Government intervention has been minimal and these people don’t know how to protect themselves. I wanted to change that!” #Innovation #ImpactThatMatters #Mumbai

SNEHA, a Mumbai-based NGO, tackles mental health among adolescents in Mumbai slums

With low levels of formal employment in slum communities, Myna employs women and trains them to be entrepreneurs who run franchisee businesses for women’s products.

A girl from the US packed her bags and came to India. When she met kids who were 13 years old and didn't know what soap was, she had the ingenious idea of recycling soaps, distributing them in slums for better health and hygiene, and empowering women. Here's more about Sundara soaps and it's founder Erin Zaikis.

Urmi Foundation, with its goal of supporting children with developmental disabilities living in the slums of Mumbai, is doing some inspiring work. Thanks to the foundation, many of these children are gaining the education that they rightfully deserve.

Megha Gupta met Dharavi slum dwellers and came up with an amazing e-commerce platform that is enabling them to earn a better livelihood. Know more about Gupta's journey and how dharavimarket.com is making a difference.

Two young and bright minds are using technology and local knowledge to give tours of one the largest slums in the world, Dharavi, the way they have seen it - from the inside! Watch their amazing spirit of enterprise as they journey from having an idea to setting up a website, having an office and providing employment to local youth.

You will truly see how one man's trash is another man's (or woman's) meal in this essay which ventures into the Mumbai slums and takes a look into the lives of the "entrepreneurs" who are trying to eke out a living from plastic discards. Meet the fiesty Lakshmi and learn how she responds when her daughter is teased with "Teri maa kachre wali hai"!