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I Lived In The Slums Of Mumbai For 5 Days And This Experience Opened My Eyes

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Community member Around six years ago, during my first visit to India, I spent 2 days walking all around the slums of Mumbai. Even though I got to learn quite a bit about life in the slums, I didn't have the chance to live inside the slums and because of that, I left with more questions than answers. So when I came back to India for the second time, I decided to go back to Mumbai and spend five days living in Dharavi, which is one of the largest slums in the world. More info: Instagram Facebook Youtube

Six years ago I spent two days walking around the slums of Mumbai but didn t have the chance to live there and left with more questions than answers

So now that I came back to India for the second time I went back to Mumbai

And decided to spend five days living inside Dharavi which is one of the largest slums in the world

This experience opened my eyes in ways I couldn t have imagined because I got to spend so much time with the local people who completely transformed my outlook on what their lives were like

This experience opened my eyes in ways I couldn't have imagined because I got to spend so much time with the local people, who completely transformed my outlook on what their lives were like. It was shocking to see the huge contrasts everywhere around the city. But I really liked how friendly and welcoming everyone was. Also, I absolutely loved the fact that there is quite a bit of history in Mumbai that was great to explore.

I had a very distorted view of the people of the slums I grew up hearing stories about them dying on the streets no one being able to read and write kids having to sleep surrounded by flesh-eating rats and so on

There are of course tons of problems that need to be addressed especially when it comes to sanitation

For example sources say that in Dharavi there is an average of 1 toilet for a thousand people

Also livestock generally lives in the same quarters with people and that combined with the fact that the water sources lack cleaning facilities sometimes causes the spread of contagious diseases

After coming back, I obviously started appreciating simple daily life things more… for a while. The thing about the human brain is that it's so easy for us to forget even the most life-changing experiences and insights and slip back into our old ways. But I've definitely changed my perspective on a lot of things and that has stayed with me ever since.

However people there are just like everywhere else

They have their own dreams goals careers thoughts and emotions They are in no way different from the rest of us

It doesn t matter where we come from We are all equal Some of us are born with golden spoons in our mouths others are not But that doesn t define us

What defines us is our pursuit of happiness our compassion for others and our ability to adapt to whatever circumstances we re in and make the best of them

See all of my experiences in the slums in the video below

At the moment, I've taken a bit of a break from active traveling these days due to all the travel restrictions as well as getting back to running my online business full-time. I still visit 5-8 countries per year, but nothing as exotic for the most part. Though I can't wait to get back to Asia as soon as I can, maybe next year! Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! 31Kviews Share on Facebook JacobLaukaitis Follow Unfollow JacobLaukaitis Author, Community member A location independent entrepreneur traveling the world.

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I work in a homeless shelter in the USA. Poverty is not a tourist attraction and poor people are not there to make rich people feel good about themselves. 37 37points reply Andy Andy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago (edited) I would disagree that he is treating it like a tourist attraction, he has been there before, and wanted to understand more about life in the slums than just the stereotypes. So he spent time there talking with the people, and would have contributed to the community through rent and food etc while he was there. The slums in Mumbai are a huge part of that city (I'm sure the last figures I saw it was over 40% of the population of greater Mumbai lived in them), so unless you think people should be restricted to only seeing the wealthy parts, it's better that people spend time there and interact with the people, than just pass by taking photos on a tour and thinking it's just a terrible crime ridden place. 21 21points reply Load More Replies... Flying Captain Flying Captain Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yes you do treat it like a tourist attraction if you go there without having any business there. It's terrible. He can choose to go there while others can not choose to leave. It's adding insult to injury. What's there not to understand about global colonization dynamics that you need to go there by yourself to inspect. Trevor Noah actually did a spot on stand up on white people travelling like this. " 'oh it's so authentic and they are all so nice!' ...no, dude....they're just poor." You do not need to travel there to know of the inequality... 9 9points reply Andy Andy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago So the people in the slums should be kept in a bubble unseen and unable to interact with people from outside it? There is nothing wrong with traveling and interacting with communities, and this guy doesn't appear to be exploiting them or looking to try and depict them in an inaccurate light.. I completely agree with you regarding people who go on about seeing "the real India" etc, when what they actually mean is they want to see poverty, but this guy knows this is only a part of what India is, and wanted to learn more about the people who live there. 8 8points reply Andy Acceber Andy Acceber Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago At its very core, poverty porn sets up a dynamic of charity, not allyship. It allows the rich photographer to look good and feel good, while disempowering the poor. If OP really wanted to support people living in the Mumbai slums, he should have looked for people from the community already making a difference. He should have highlighted their work and their mission and helped expand their platform. In short, he should have followed their lead. Sure, you can visit wherever you like. But to then take photos of it and publicize it from entirely your perspective (especially when you're focused on an area that already has limited global representation), you're doing a massive disservice to the subjects you're portraying. More info: https://www.goodthingsguy.com/opinion/what-is-poverty-porn-and-why-is-it-such-a-problem/ 7 7points reply David Andrews David Andrews Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I agree poverty porn is a damaging things, but I don't think this fall's under that category. The problem with poverty porn is it is used by charities to oversimplify poverty, and focuses the solution on commodities. Showing a sad child and saying "Sarah has to walk X time to get water, donate just 10 pounds to us and we can built a pump, then she can go to school and everything will be great" gets the money in, but does not address actual issues. Same with showing sad children made super happy by being given a pair of shoes, without looking at why they don't have shoes to start with. Living with people, and documenting your day to day experiences without then using it to ask for money, or push your "solutions" is not quite the same. If anything, focusing just on people doing initiatives or projects would reduce everyone else to 2 dimensuonal "poor" who are just in the background to be saved. 1 1point reply Immortal Emperor Paradox Immortal Emperor Paradox Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago (edited) Also, there's a reason places like this exist. Is it really possible that India can send a satellite to Mars but not eliminate slums or make good roads? These slums are huge vote banks, cheap minions, slave laborers, etc. I really don't understand why these guys want to see the 'Poor India'. What's the fun in that? 3 3points reply Display Name Display Name Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 7 months ago Sending satellite to Mars is easy. You just have to deal with scientists. But any infra - it's dirty politics. Mumbai is building a new metro line. They chose a government land lying in neglect for it - called Aarey. Since this land was neglected for years, naturally there were many grown trees. So when government started clearing the trees "environmental activists" suddenly said govt is "deforesting". Soon, it was flooded with memes as if Mumbai is running out of Oxygen. Bollywood celebs opposed. New govt shelved it. Japanese company that was building metro gave up and went. A French company was hired now even they gave up. All because of inability to find land for Metro. Rumors say a politician wanted to do sell his land for exorbitant price to govt, though govt already had govt land for this purpose. Same issue with housing for slum dwellers. It's dirty politics. 0 0points reply Elizabeth Amador Elizabeth Amador Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I COMPLETELY AGREE. I was cringing with discomfort through this whole article. The worst part was the guy championing his realization that the people living there are Actual people and have value equal to all other people. 13 13points reply Manuel Delgado Manuel Delgado Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Spot on. "They have their own dreams goals careers thoughts and emotions They are in no way different from the rest of us". I almost puke. 8 8points reply Andy Acceber Andy Acceber Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Thank you! I was hoping for this comment. Poor people don't exist for rich people to play poverty with for a while before returning to their normal lives. You have the option to leave the slum at any time. They don't. Your experience is not the same. 13 13points reply Aeon Flux Aeon Flux Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Luther, I think it's good to be wary of people's motives in situations like these, but it seems clear that the OP is neither being condescending nor is he exotifying the lives of the people he met. On the contrary, he is humanizing a group of people who are generally overlooked and shunned. I believe OP has actually done a good thing--by raising awareness and crossing boundaries with kindness and humility. 8 8points reply Aeon Flux Aeon Flux Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago And well-intentioned though you undoubtedly are, I have to point out that it's not great to presume to speak for that group of people, when it's obvious they invited OP in and gladly shared their experiences with him. 6 6points reply Luther von Wolfen Luther von Wolfen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago (edited) After reading many peoples' responses and considering what they said, I stand by it. This is a white, priviliged college boy who played poor for a few days and learned that "we should all make the best of things". That's bullsh*t. People who are poor are poor because other people are rich. Instead of saying "it's great that the poor can manage to be happy once in a while", the compassionate response is to try to alleviate poverty. Maybe this guy went on to do some real work, but this article is condesending as hell. 6 6points reply Jamma Jamma Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yet if those with privilege are not aware of the underprivileged, you would have no funding. Awareness is always necessary. 2 2points reply Marie Alexia Marie Alexia Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 8 months ago I am surprised that your obviously rude comment is not removed. Seriously! He is just there trying to understand the world even more and learn from it. From his post I have seen a more detailed view of poorest parts if the world and what we can learn from it. I don't understand how your comment even have a meaning at all. 1 1point reply Eric Mac Fadden Eric Mac Fadden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 4 years ago I've lived a time like this (three years to be be precisely). It was a hard time, even in a big city in Brazil (Campinas/SP). I had my son in the middle of the turbulence and lived in a kind of hostel for a year... full of criminals and drug addicts. But some nice people. We had a good life before that, and now I'd recover it again... but that time made me better. 31 31points reply JacobLaukaitis (Post author) JacobLaukaitis Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 4 years ago You're a true legend, Eric! 7 7points reply Load More Replies... Nick P Nick P Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 4 years ago Hi Jacob, I live in Mumbai and till date I haven't seen such a beautiful video of my city. Every city have problems, poverty, etc but what makes Dharavi or Mumbai so beautiful is the spirit of the people living in it. Inspite of such a huge difference in lifestyle and such diversity, people know how to live together and fight all odds in the race called Life. You showed what really needed to be shown in your video. I'm very happy that you enjoyed your stay and had an experience of your life. Every city in the world is beautiful, but one should need an eye to see that beauty.. P.S.- Would love to meet you the next time you visit Mumbai. 7 7points reply Krásnoočko Zelené Krásnoočko Zelené Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago (edited) Sorry but this sounds a lot like larping poverty. There's nothing wrong with traveling in poor countries and staying with poor people but when you take photos of poor people stuff and make a moving article where you say how it "opened your eyes".. it really screams slum tourism / poverty porn and it is cringe. 24 24points reply Load More Comments POST Luther von Wolfen Luther von Wolfen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago The title of this should be "White Boy Goes Slumming". I work in a homeless shelter in the USA. Poverty is not a tourist attraction and poor people are not there to make rich people feel good about themselves. 37 37points reply Andy Andy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago (edited) I would disagree that he is treating it like a tourist attraction, he has been there before, and wanted to understand more about life in the slums than just the stereotypes. So he spent time there talking with the people, and would have contributed to the community through rent and food etc while he was there. The slums in Mumbai are a huge part of that city (I'm sure the last figures I saw it was over 40% of the population of greater Mumbai lived in them), so unless you think people should be restricted to only seeing the wealthy parts, it's better that people spend time there and interact with the people, than just pass by taking photos on a tour and thinking it's just a terrible crime ridden place. 21 21points reply Load More Replies... Flying Captain Flying Captain Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yes you do treat it like a tourist attraction if you go there without having any business there. It's terrible. He can choose to go there while others can not choose to leave. It's adding insult to injury. What's there not to understand about global colonization dynamics that you need to go there by yourself to inspect. Trevor Noah actually did a spot on stand up on white people travelling like this. " 'oh it's so authentic and they are all so nice!' ...no, dude....they're just poor." You do not need to travel there to know of the inequality... 9 9points reply Andy Andy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago So the people in the slums should be kept in a bubble unseen and unable to interact with people from outside it? There is nothing wrong with traveling and interacting with communities, and this guy doesn't appear to be exploiting them or looking to try and depict them in an inaccurate light.. I completely agree with you regarding people who go on about seeing "the real India" etc, when what they actually mean is they want to see poverty, but this guy knows this is only a part of what India is, and wanted to learn more about the people who live there. 8 8points reply Andy Acceber Andy Acceber Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago At its very core, poverty porn sets up a dynamic of charity, not allyship. It allows the rich photographer to look good and feel good, while disempowering the poor. If OP really wanted to support people living in the Mumbai slums, he should have looked for people from the community already making a difference. He should have highlighted their work and their mission and helped expand their platform. In short, he should have followed their lead. Sure, you can visit wherever you like. But to then take photos of it and publicize it from entirely your perspective (especially when you're focused on an area that already has limited global representation), you're doing a massive disservice to the subjects you're portraying. More info: https://www.goodthingsguy.com/opinion/what-is-poverty-porn-and-why-is-it-such-a-problem/ 7 7points reply David Andrews David Andrews Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I agree poverty porn is a damaging things, but I don't think this fall's under that category. The problem with poverty porn is it is used by charities to oversimplify poverty, and focuses the solution on commodities. Showing a sad child and saying "Sarah has to walk X time to get water, donate just 10 pounds to us and we can built a pump, then she can go to school and everything will be great" gets the money in, but does not address actual issues. Same with showing sad children made super happy by being given a pair of shoes, without looking at why they don't have shoes to start with. Living with people, and documenting your day to day experiences without then using it to ask for money, or push your "solutions" is not quite the same. If anything, focusing just on people doing initiatives or projects would reduce everyone else to 2 dimensuonal "poor" who are just in the background to be saved. 1 1point reply Immortal Emperor Paradox Immortal Emperor Paradox Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago (edited) Also, there's a reason places like this exist. Is it really possible that India can send a satellite to Mars but not eliminate slums or make good roads? These slums are huge vote banks, cheap minions, slave laborers, etc. I really don't understand why these guys want to see the 'Poor India'. What's the fun in that? 3 3points reply Display Name Display Name Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 7 months ago Sending satellite to Mars is easy. You just have to deal with scientists. But any infra - it's dirty politics. Mumbai is building a new metro line. They chose a government land lying in neglect for it - called Aarey. Since this land was neglected for years, naturally there were many grown trees. So when government started clearing the trees "environmental activists" suddenly said govt is "deforesting". Soon, it was flooded with memes as if Mumbai is running out of Oxygen. Bollywood celebs opposed. New govt shelved it. Japanese company that was building metro gave up and went. A French company was hired now even they gave up. All because of inability to find land for Metro. Rumors say a politician wanted to do sell his land for exorbitant price to govt, though govt already had govt land for this purpose. Same issue with housing for slum dwellers. It's dirty politics. 0 0points reply Elizabeth Amador Elizabeth Amador Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I COMPLETELY AGREE. I was cringing with discomfort through this whole article. The worst part was the guy championing his realization that the people living there are Actual people and have value equal to all other people. 13 13points reply Manuel Delgado Manuel Delgado Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Spot on. "They have their own dreams goals careers thoughts and emotions They are in no way different from the rest of us". I almost puke. 8 8points reply Andy Acceber Andy Acceber Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Thank you! I was hoping for this comment. Poor people don't exist for rich people to play poverty with for a while before returning to their normal lives. You have the option to leave the slum at any time. They don't. Your experience is not the same. 13 13points reply Aeon Flux Aeon Flux Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Luther, I think it's good to be wary of people's motives in situations like these, but it seems clear that the OP is neither being condescending nor is he exotifying the lives of the people he met. On the contrary, he is humanizing a group of people who are generally overlooked and shunned. I believe OP has actually done a good thing--by raising awareness and crossing boundaries with kindness and humility. 8 8points reply Aeon Flux Aeon Flux Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago And well-intentioned though you undoubtedly are, I have to point out that it's not great to presume to speak for that group of people, when it's obvious they invited OP in and gladly shared their experiences with him. 6 6points reply Luther von Wolfen Luther von Wolfen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago (edited) After reading many peoples' responses and considering what they said, I stand by it. This is a white, priviliged college boy who played poor for a few days and learned that "we should all make the best of things". That's bullsh*t. People who are poor are poor because other people are rich. Instead of saying "it's great that the poor can manage to be happy once in a while", the compassionate response is to try to alleviate poverty. Maybe this guy went on to do some real work, but this article is condesending as hell. 6 6points reply Jamma Jamma Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yet if those with privilege are not aware of the underprivileged, you would have no funding. Awareness is always necessary. 2 2points reply Marie Alexia Marie Alexia Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 8 months ago I am surprised that your obviously rude comment is not removed. Seriously! He is just there trying to understand the world even more and learn from it. From his post I have seen a more detailed view of poorest parts if the world and what we can learn from it. I don't understand how your comment even have a meaning at all. 1 1point reply Eric Mac Fadden Eric Mac Fadden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 4 years ago I've lived a time like this (three years to be be precisely). It was a hard time, even in a big city in Brazil (Campinas/SP). I had my son in the middle of the turbulence and lived in a kind of hostel for a year... full of criminals and drug addicts. But some nice people. We had a good life before that, and now I'd recover it again... but that time made me better. 31 31points reply JacobLaukaitis (Post author) JacobLaukaitis Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 4 years ago You're a true legend, Eric! 7 7points reply Load More Replies... Nick P Nick P Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 4 years ago Hi Jacob, I live in Mumbai and till date I haven't seen such a beautiful video of my city. Every city have problems, poverty, etc but what makes Dharavi or Mumbai so beautiful is the spirit of the people living in it. Inspite of such a huge difference in lifestyle and such diversity, people know how to live together and fight all odds in the race called Life. You showed what really needed to be shown in your video. I'm very happy that you enjoyed your stay and had an experience of your life. Every city in the world is beautiful, but one should need an eye to see that beauty.. P.S.- Would love to meet you the next time you visit Mumbai. 7 7points reply Krásnoočko Zelené Krásnoočko Zelené Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago (edited) Sorry but this sounds a lot like larping poverty. 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