Form 3 class activity - Dharavi slum, Mumbai

Hi everyone

Click on the following website from National Geographic, 'skim read' the article and answer the questions below on no more than 2 sides of paper. The article is quite difficult and they will probably be words that you do not understand. Please use the internet to help with your understanding.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0705/feature3/index.html

Here are your tasks:
1.Find a map showing the location of Dharavi

2.Write half a page describing what Dharavi is like (have a look at some of the photographs)

3.Find out how the slum is changing and the reason(s) why

4.What do local people think about the plans for the slum?

EXTENSION WORK! Have a look at this second article from a magazine caled The Economist. It is from last year and the headline of the article is - '

'The residents of Dharavi, allegedly Asia's biggest slum, are thriving in hardship'

Produce a series of bullet points which show how people are achieving success in Dharavi.

http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10311293

Print your work with name on and hand it in.

Good luck!