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Mission
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About FODRA
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| ABOUT THE URBAN PROJECT IN DELHI - PRATAP NAGAR AND ADJOINING CLUSTERS Lacking an education and job skills, thousands of rural poor are migrating to Delhi each year in search of a better life. Finding slums already to their full capacity and no space for making new makeshift housing arrangements, some of these migrants have established several illegal low-income colonies by purchasing a piece land in the semi-urban/outskirts of Delhi bordering Uttar Pradesh. Since the human settlement clusters in Pratap Nagar and adjoining areas have been developed with out the official approval of local administration, the area has been neglected in all respect for a such a long-time. There are no municipality drinking water connections, common toilet facilities and electricity even for street lighting. Although the families know that the shallow hand-pump water used by them is dangerous to their lives and will be infected with water-born diseases, they find no other alternate options then using water drawn from shallow hand-pumps for both drinking and cooking purposes. Secondly, since the majority of families live hand to mouth, they can not even think of purchasing some more fuel to boil the water before using for drinking purposes. In spite of continuous awareness building exercise to reduce water born diseases by using chlorine tablets, the majority of families most preferably the children do not prefer accept the method due to its smell. In many cases, it has been found that the families can not afford to install their own hand-pumps and depend on their neighbors to take water for cooking, drinking, bathing and other consumption purposes. All most all hand-pumps are 50-60 feet depth which not fit for consumption purpose. The families with an average family members of 7/8 are staying in very small partly constructed houses with unsanitary living conditions such as - majority families lack of individual toilets and sewage facilities. Non-availability of community sewage facilities, the families used to leave the household waste water either in front of their houses or to vacant plots. Only half of families have self-constructed individual single-pit or double-pit latrines using local expertise. Although, the families give top priority for individual latrines due to social factors, they have been constrained to construct their latrines only due to non-availability of accumulated savings or credit facilities. All most all families interacted have agreed to repay the credit amount even with interest if credit linkage is provided to them for constructing latrines. The families especially the women with out individual toilets use open spaces only in dark or use the space across the adjoining railway-line with a constant social fear. The diseases such as dehydration, diarrhea, jaundice, skin disorders, anemia, respiratory infections, parasitic infection are common among the people in addition to malnutrition among children. In several occasions, it is found that a prolonged dehydration or diarrhea has killed many of the children and event adults. |
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