THOSE POOR WEARY WOMEN
Residents have no free education or medical services. Men in the community go out every day in the often vain hope that they will be employed as cheap day laborers to be able to bring back enough money to buy drinking water. Women walk long hours to buy meagre yet expensive water from street vendors. The cost of water bought in bottles and jugs is ten times the normal price for water through a tap from the public utility.This slum community is near a dirty and almost dry so-called "river." This "river" provides them with all their water needs for day-to-day activities, from washing clothes and vegetables, to coking and bathing. Their only toilet facilities are bamboo cages over the canal where their human waste goes into the same water they use for everything else."We have no choice but to live here. My family's house in the countryside was washed away in the flood," says Sanda Rani, who has lived in this slum for three years.