Madurai Slums Keel Madurai 2009

WELCOME

Keel(East) Madurai
PRESENTATION ON SLUM VISIT
Slum Visit- Keel Madurai
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We neglect our cities at our peril, in neglecting them, we neglect the nation.
-John .F.Kennedy

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Presentation by Saravanan…
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Group Members 1.Veerathirumagan
2.Muniyandi
3.Raja
4.UshaPriya
5.Muthumari
6.Pandi
7.Sridhar
8.Vairamani
9.Rubert
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What is a slum…?
Urbanization poses several socio-economic and environmental problems for cities in India and one among them is the rise of slums. A slum represents a habitat unit with defective physical, social, and economic living conditions
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MYTH: Relocating slum residents to housing projects on the outskirts of the city solves the slum “problem.”

REALITY: Resettling slum residents far from their original homes and job opportunities is not usually viable. The economic and social disruption costs are too high.
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Slum Relocation

"Water and Sanitation is one of the primary drivers of public health. I often refer to it as “Health 101”, which means that once we can secure access to clean water and to adequate sanitation facilities for all people, irrespective of the difference in their living conditions, a huge battle against all kinds of diseases will be won."
Dr LEE Jong-Wook,
Director-General,
World Health Organization.
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About Keel Madurai…
Keel Madurai is located near kamarajarSalai
It is one of the smallest slum in Madurai.
Consists of 83 families
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Education…
The children in the slum study in the near by Corporation school.
Mostly they don’t go for higher education because of financial constraints.
Awareness on education is very low.
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Employment…
Generally men work as coolie on temporary basis.
Women work as domestic maids to support their family financially.
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Health status…
No visible health hazard or malnutrition.
But due to their low income and living conditions there are chances of unbalanced diet, which may lead to malnutrition and associated diseases.
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Sanitation…
No separate toilet facility.
Corporation has constructed a common toilet.
But it is not used properly.
People themselves have constructed a toilet for them.
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Water Facilities…
Only non drinkable water is available
Access to purified water is less.
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Major disadvantages in a Slum

In addition to their primarily informal-sector

incomes, the residents of these settlements suffer from multipledisadvantages:

public services are inadequate,
access to healthcare, education and socio-political decision-making processes is limited
and the protection of public security is seldom guaranteed bypublic authorities.

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Streets in the Slum…
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For a long time, the neglect, eviction or forced resettlement ofinformal settlers was the only response of developing countries tothe continuing urbanization process.
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There is now aninternational consensus that comprehensive improvement of theliving conditions in informal settlements (slum upgrading) is necessaryin order to create conditions for long-term poverty reductionand to gradually raise the quality of life in poor neighborhoods.
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“We shall not finally defeat AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria or any of the other infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation and basic health care.”
Kofi Annan,
Former United Nations Secretary-General
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Thank you
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