Dharavi Slum Tours

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About a million people live in Dharavi slum in India that is only 432 acres which is 0.67 square miles. There are multiple tours that take people through the slums of many countries called slum tours. Many people find it useful to learn about people that live fortunate lives. With the slum tours people can help improve the slums, the tours can even start charities to help the slums and expand the knowledge about the slums. A lot can be learned and improved by seeing people in poverty and people living in the slums. The slum tours can help improve condition of the slums. The condition of the slums could either be improved by cleaning up the spaces, having the government pay more attention to the spaces that need help and binging the attention …show more content…

Multiple people go on the tours to help out the people in the slums and when they do they normally go back to their hometown and talk to their family members on when they saw and what kind of experience they had. Now some might say that they experience that they had was to hard to talk about and the work would not get out about what happened and the nobody will know how bad it is and no one will help.Now a lot of people will be interested in what they saw and would want to talk about what they saw. In the article People are still paying money to witness poverty By Sarah Souli states” Chance to meet local families and discover how their lives have been affected by the financial crisis.”On the tour people will be able to see how it is like to live in the environment and see the people living their. Also they will learn how the families have been affected and how they are trying to overcome it. So when they are educated on how people live in the slums they will share their knowledge on what they have learned on the tour with others if they feel the need to. With people learning about how people are living in the slums the knowledge will be shared with others to help

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