32-year-old
Shabnam is an inhabitant of Gheja slum of Gautam Budh Nagar
district in Noida. Around 1500 people live in the area with
the major occupation as daily wage labors. The health and
hygiene situation of the village is very bad as there is no
proper sanitation facility available.
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Razia
lives in Begumpur village of Gautam Buddha Nagar district
of Noida. The total population of the village is 3000 and
the major occupation of the village is Rickshaw pulling. Literacy
rate of the community is very low and health and hygiene among
the people are also very low.
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Pinky
– 25 years old; mother of a two year old boy & two
months old girl; wife of a rag-picker who merely passes as
the breadwinner. They live in Churiya Slum at Tuglakabad in
South Delhi. The Smile on Wheels team took notice of Pinky’s
little girl one day when they found her crying hysterically.
One of the team member’s went and asked Pinky the reason
and she replied saying, “She is hungry I don’t
have milk for her because I give it to my son”.
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Manni
Devi lives in Jagatpura Kacchi Basti, Jaipur. She and her
husband work as daily casual labour. They have three children
who go to a govt. school. Around 18,000 people live in this
community and most of them have casual labour as their means
of income. People in this community suffer a lot from viral
fever, malaria and dengue and this is caused by the bad hygiene
conditions in the area.
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Rajrani,
55 years old, lives in Pateypur, Lucknow. Over 50,000 people
live in this community and problems like viral fever, dengue
are very common here.
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Kalawati,
48 years old, lives in Sansarpur basti ka talab area of Lucknow.
The area homes a population of 20,000 people and has terrible
hygiene conditions. Viral fever, dengue and malaria are common
diseases that the people living in the area suffer.
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“Moti
Ram Mahto, is a 15 year old boy and lives with his family
in Jagra Paika, a small village in the Angara district of
Jharkhand. The area has a total population of over 1lac. Majority
of the people work here as casual labourers, rickshaw pullers,
small shopkeepers, etc. Diseases like malaria, diarrhoea,
tuberculosis and asthma are very common in this area.
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Md.
Rafique Yusuf Kundiva, is an inhabitant of Haji Sattarni Chali
Idgah in Ahmedabad. 5000 people live in this community which
consists of 1500 migrant labour workers. The area has very
unhygienic living conditions; heaps of dirt is found everywhere
and water accumulation can be seen everywhere, as a result
of which the area has a lot of mosquitoes; there is no provision
of clean drinking water and there are common toilets which
are very dirty and unhygienic. Majority of the people living
in this community suffer from dysentery, malaria, skin diseases
and arthritis.
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Mantosh
Mahto lives in Baridih, a village in the outskirts of Ranchi,
Jharkhand. He supports a family of 3 which includes his wife,
child and younger brother. The livelihood of the family is
entirely dependent on agriculture, but Mantosh does not possess
enough land to do well out of farming. He thus works as a
rural insurance agent as well, and needs to travel to his
clients every day in order to collect premiums.
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