MUMBAI SLUM DWELLERS
Formerly known as Bombay, Mumbai is one of the world's most densely populated cities.
The chance of a well paid job and a new life draws India's rural poor to cities like Mumbai. For many the dream of a better life becomes a nightmare of urban squalor and poverty.
During the monsoon season in July this slum dweller sheltered from the rain beneath a slither of blue tarpaulin. Huddled in his one room shack, a flickering black and white television broadcast the England v India cricket test live from Trent Bridge in Nottingham.
Though many slum dwellers have been residents for decades, they have no legal rights to the land they live on.
Destroying the houses of the poor however is fraught with difficulty. The government is often condemned for evicting people who have nowhere else to go.
But there are hundreds of thousands of unauthorised plots as well.
Many residents eke out a living as ragpickers scavenging through enormous mounds of rotting rubbish looking for bits of plastic and metal to sell.
All the slums in Mumbai have thriving enterprises such as barbers shops and roadside kiosks; as well as metal shops and businesses that recycle plastic goods.
Fifty five per cent of the city's population survives on one meal a day.
According to government statistics, in 2003 there were 17 public toilets for every million people in Mumbai.
In the same year at least one third of Mumbai's residents did not have access to clean drinking water.
More than 60 per cent of children in Mumbai are malnourished.
According to government statistics, in 2003 there were 17 public toilets for every million people in Mumbai.
Many residents eke out a living as ragpickers scavenging through enormous mounds of rotting rubbish looking for bits of plastic and metal to sell.
Apnalaya was founded by former Australian Deputy High Commissioner to Mumbai, Tom Holland in 1972.
Today Apnalaya works to empower men and women to believe in themselves and their abilities to change their lives for the better.