A presentation on Urban poverty and household adaptations in dhaka city, Bangladesh.

1. Urban Poverty and Household
Adaptations in
Dhaka City, Bangladesh

2. Mohammad HUSAIN
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3. Overview
 Results & Findings
i. Occupation of the slum people
ii. Economic Condition of the slum people
iii. Living condition of the poor people
iv. Environmental Services
v. Health & Educational services

4. Occupation of the slum people
 Mostly involved in low paid jobs
 Every capable members are earing persons
 Occupation varies between males and
females
❖ Males -
Day laborer, rickshaw puller, hawker, garments
worker
❖ Females –
Maidservants, garments worker, tailors and
housewives

5. Economic Condition of the slum people

6. Living condition of the poor people
 Build their houses on vacant lands
 Self-made houses locally known as jhupri
 Few are semi-structured houses
 Single roomed housing
 Have no cooking facilities

7. Environmental Services
 Have no individual access to the city's
water supply
 Get electricity connections from
informal sources
 Have no access to city sewerage
systems and share pit latrines
 Few have access to municipal waste
disposal facilities

8. Health & Educational services
 Limited access to the existing health
care facilities
 Few of them use services from city
health centers
 Majority gets their medicine from
pharmacies without the consultation of
trained physicians
 have no formal schooling in their
lifetime
 Children's are not attending school
 Limited access to the existing
educational opportunities

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