A Slum Tour in Mumbai…What’s your Take on that?
Everywhere on the ground lay sleeping natives-- hundreds and hundreds. They lay stretched at full length and tightly wrapped in blankets, heads and all. Their attitude and rigidity counterfeited death. Mark Twain, on a nocturnal drive through Bombay in 1896. “A three-year old orphan remains unattended to because her mother “cannot” attend to her…This is the reality in Mumbai’s slum life. Struggling everyday to survive, in these slum houses, there are at a minimum 6-8 people living together in cramped up tiny spaces. Clean water is not accessible. Lighting…of course –its not there! To make things worse, there is permanently a very bad smell in the air. There are no ‘hygienic latrines’ and the only option is to use ‘hanging latrines’, which are dangerous – because sometimes a child can fall into the latrine and get injured. 15-20 families have to share one sanitary latrine. So, how can you remain healthy after using this water?” This is the rea...