Tag: Mumbai
Migrant from Mumbai Forced to Live in the Open | COVID 19
The ongoing lockdown has compelled thousands of people to return to their villages. However, in the absence of public transport, many are forced to arrange for their own vehicles or walk on foot, several hundred kilometres along with their whole family. Video Volunteers community correspondent Amol Lalzare brings to us...
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A People’s Movement for Equitable Distribution of Water
Over the years, PHS has evolved into a people’s movement that has created widespread awareness on privatisation of water supply and raised it with concerned authorities.
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Urban Slums: Rebuilding the City of Dreams
The popular image of Mumbai that most of us would conjure up in our minds is the Mumbai of glittering skylines and the one of its kind Sea Link. Mumbai is also known for its urban slums, an image that some of us might conjure up and unfortunately, even romanticise.
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Demolishing Dreams in Maximum City
Houses and shops razed by the municipality, led to families living on pavements in Mumbai's Ghatkopar.
Dharavi Art Room provides a Safe Haven for Children in Asia’s Largest Slum
Living in one of the most densely populated spaces on earth takes its toll on children. Dharavi Art Room is a sanctuary where children paint, play instruments and learn about themselves, outside standard curricula.
Clean water supply made possible in a Mumbai slum | IMPACT
‘People spit and dogs urinate in these water lines, and we have no option but to fill water from these lines. This water is not even suitable for animals and yet we are forced to drink this water’.For nearly 15 years, this was the condition of residents of the Rahul...
IMPACT: Making Mumbai Sewage Free
Slum: “a squalid and overcrowded urban area inhabited by very poor people.” ...
A Man Urges Govt to Build Playground in Mumbai’s Suburb
The shrinking open spaces in the suburbs of Mumbai is affecting children, who yearn to run, play and have fun like children are meant to. While there are sports facilities that rent out space and equipment for a rate, it means that it is for the handful people who can...