The Slums

My role model grew up in the slums of New York City is not that much. At the age of 17, I dropped out of school and I ran the longest distance, the only opportunity to pursue success. My dream is to win the marathon to be held next month in Chicago. If you win this game, you get $ 50,000 and hope to sign a contract with Nike. I have only one problem; some women are faster than me. I have been training, I became one of the top ten women in the Boston marathon, but I have never won an important game.

Initially, I wanted to focus on some slums, but in the end I decided to concentrate all the energy on the slums of Dharavi. Dharavi is the largest slum area in Mumbai and one of the biggest slums in the world. Discussions continue on whether relocation of Durhamvi and its inhabitants should be resolved, or whether the government should work on improving the situation in the slums so that the inhabitants of the slums can stay. In addition, Dharavi is operating in its own way and does not recognize that people in the slum community actually established this tightly integrated working community and contributed to the Mumbai society.

Walking / tourism in slums is not a new concept; in the 1830's, wealthy Americans (including Abraham Lincoln) become "lazy" in the five communities in New York and the other half live in I will look at. As Travel Weekly said 10 years ago, it has evolved into a modern "poor man". They define it as "a slave trip or a derogatory label for other types of outings bringing visitors to the world." Slum travels have spread to countries such as Rio, Nairobi, South Africa, Mexico and India. As the Indian slum walk walk shows that poverty and homeless are felt unbalanced among the surrounding people, a slums town traveling in a black town that is most susceptible to violence like South Africa We are. Slums apartheid

Walking in the slums is a voyeurism, they promise poverty and homeless for the benefit of tourists. Yes, slum travel is at best a band-aid solution for systemic poverty in countries like India and they can not change people's living conditions overnight, but these companies are actually There are not many records on how much we will deal with funds. . Behaviorism, or to help people who have their travel theme theme. In a recent NowThis video, Samantha Nutt claims that locally people really need empowerment and support for their work in the community, but this limits the potential income It does not benefit the travel company.