write 10 points on a visit to any slum or Basti
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SLUM... Why do people hate it so much? How is it there? What type of people live there.... These questions always flood my mind with curiosity. So one day i took up the courage of visiting a nearby slum and just taking a look of how it really is. Driving was a good idea for transport so i called the taxi. But later i realized how difficult it was to get trough the slum. The roads were bumpy, There were lots of pot-holes and the road was too narrow. So i got of the taxi and decided to walk instead. When i got of the road was dirty and filled with plastic bags! It was stinking and half of the road was a gutter. The people were poor there and they were fighting for houses(which wasn't even hut) The houses there were like tents, and not so steady ones! Some people were taking bath behind a wall which was about 20 inches wide and 5 feet tall!they wore torn up clothes and the women there were really weak.. no food, no home, no money.. It was so horrible there i could hardly stay for 3 minutes! Phew.. the smell was so bad that there were flies all over the place. Also there was a lady who was frying pagodas and many flies had fallen in it. Besides after all this i really needed a bath cause the smell had transferred to me and i was stinking really bad! just when i was about to leave a few people came to me claiming that they were selling toys and if i would like to buy one. I felt sorry for them looking at their condition so i bought a bouncy ball with polka-dots on it for my dog. Just after i payed for it about 5 people came to me, mostly women and begged for some money, Again feeling sorry for them i gave them $10 and rushed out before anyone else came to me. So i had already given out half of my cash so i didn't want to spend even a pie. I felt embarrassed to enter the taxi because of the gift the slum had given me (stink) but there was no other way to go home. so i told the taxi driver to open the windows. When i reached home, as soon i stepped inside the hole house started smelling. So i rushed to the bathroom to have a bath. That was much better than keeping the gift that slum gave me.
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A slum is usually a highly populated urban residential area consisting mostly of closely packed, decrepit housing units in a situation of deteriorated or incomplete infrastructure, inhabited primarily by impoverished persons.[1] Although slums, especially in America, are usually located in urban areas, in other countries they can be located in suburban areas where housing quality is low and living conditions are poor.[2] While slums differ in size and other characteristics, most lack reliable sanitation services, supply of clean water, reliable electricity, law enforcement, and other basic services. Slum residences vary from shanty houses to professionally built dwellings which, because of poor-quality construction and/or lack of basic maintenance, have deteriorated.[3]
Due to increasing urbanization of the general populace, slums became common in the 18th to late 20th centuries in the United States and Europe.[4][5] Slums are still predominantly found in urban regions of developing countries, but are also still found in developed economies.[6][7] The world's largest slum city is found in the Neza-Chalco-Ixtapaluca area, located in the State of Mexico.[8][9][10]
Slums form and grow in different parts of the world for many different reasons. Causes include rapid rural-to-urban migration, economic stagnation and depression, high unemployment, poverty, informal economy, forced or manipulated ghettoization, poor planning, politics, natural disasters, and social conflicts.[1][11][12] Strategies tried to reduce and transform slums in different countries, with varying degrees of success, include a combination of slum removal, slum relocation, slum upgrading, urban planning with citywide infrastructure development, and public housing.[13][14]