Slums

Slums are informal settlements that lack one or more of the following four conditions: access to clean water, access to sanitation, sufficient living area that’s not overcrowded, and inadequate, sub-standard housing. An estimated 6.5 million, around 55% of Mumbai’s total population live in slums. Most slum houses do not have toilets or running water. The people have to pay to use community toilets which are rarely maintained, buy overpriced water from vendors and 58% have no electricity. Many slum houses do not have proper doors, some without any doors.  Dharavi, with an estimated population of one million people, is not only one of the biggest slum areas in Mumbai, but in the whole of Asia. Mumbai slums  also has a high percentage of homeless people who cannot afford any form of permanent shelter.

Mission for Orphans also helps provide for children that are forced to live in the slums and streets in various parts of India.