slum dwellers

Shelter Associates, spearheaded by architect Pratima Joshi, has transformed slum settlements across Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad, Navi Mumbai, and Kolhapur with its pioneering mapping solutions.

Uplabdhi Misha Chandola’s initiative Teach Girls is using the homeschooling methods to educate girls who have had to drop out of school in the Garhwal region.

A Gurgaon-based NGO is helping children of slum-dwellers, who are first generation readers and learners in their families, receive free education and training in basic life skills and personal hygiene.

Slum dwellers in Mumbai can now construct toilets in their homes, thanks to the recent orders issued by BMC. Constructing toilets in these slums was considered illegal until now.

Jaco Swanepoel came to India over a year ago. Since then, he has been finding ways to help slum dwellers and poverty stricken people and to bring smiles on their faces. He shares with us his experiences of working with the poorest of the poor in India and the transformation he sees all around him.