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Thursday, May 19, 2011

'The Shiva Rules: Lessons from India's largest slum'

from global post........
The slum’s massive population — upward of 1 million people live on its 550 acres — has enabled it to be both a consumer and a producer of goods and services.
“Dharavi has become a market to itself,” said Vinod Shetty, the director of ACORN Foundation India, which runs the Dharavi Project, an initiative working with 100,000 so-called ragpickers who segregate waste in and around landfills in Mumbai".............TEXT AND VIDEO HERE

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