Slums Essay

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Slums have been in Egypt for four decades now. Similar to any other slum in the world Egypt’s slums suffer from lack of water, sewage, waste disposal, education, and health. UNHABITAT definition of slums a “group of individuals living under the same roof that lack one or more of the following conditions: access to safe water, access to improved sanitation, secure tenure, and sufficient living areas.” (cn.unhabitat.org). Number of slums in Egypt is 1,221 areas. Those slums are occupied by almost 70.17 million inhabitants. (“Slums in Egypt”. egypt.electionnaire.com ). The slums are caused by many factors. First youth migrant laborers, in rural areas youth don’t have many jobs opportunities so they start moving to the urban areas in search for their city dream and better opportunities. Second, poverty is like a genetic disease that is inherited and passed by one generation to the other which makes it impossible to escape. Third the absence of law and Disparity in distributing wealth and inequality are also major causes of the slums. Last but not least the poor people generally believe the more the children the better life, but in fact it affects them negatively ending up not able to feed their children. The effects of slums are not only affecting the slums’ dwellers but also the surrounding neighborhoods and the government. Moreover, growing up in slums results in dropping out school; in which generates inequality of opportunities and make the dwellers get stuck in dead end jobs. Also the life conditions the dwellers are facing make them exposed to many diseases. The stakeholders for this problem are donors, government, slums communities, some NGOs (UNCHS, Cities Alliance, UNDP, UNICEF, and ILO), national partners, and business...

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The project is briefly works in this sequence; the Cities Alliance finds slums and upgrades them to be a suitable place for people to live in. The strength of the this project that it upgrades the slums and not make the dwellers transfer from their hometown, legalizing the land for them and last but not least that it make jobs available for them near them. However, the solution doesn't solve any of the main causes of the slums, as it didn't make anything for those who are the reason behind the slums. There are dozens of solutions for this problem but the most perfect one is the Cities Alliance project. This project lacks one point that would make it flawless, Cities Alliance should have put in consideration the people who created the slums in the first place, not only caring about the effects of the slums but also on the causes of the slums.

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