a profile of a slum community? we need to research and develop a profile of the slum community we...
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A Profile of a Slum Community?
• We need to research and develop a profile of the slum community we are planning to work in
• The information is best collected from informal observation and conversations with slum dwellers
• Avoid using a questionaire and surveys – they raise expectations among slum dwellers
• Ascertain, population, family details, main occupations, income, services available, resources, etc
What income generating projects can come from this slum?
• Ask the inhabitants what income generating ideas they have?
• This will also help locate the entrepreneurs in the community?
• Ascertain what capital is needed to start these projects?
Here is an example
• From Manila, the Capital City of the Philippines – this slum settlement is the famous Payatas B rubbish tip
slum 12 km from the Central Business District.
A Picture of the Payatas Rubbish Tip in Manila
A Profile
• 150,000 inhabitants in Payatas B Settlement
• 20,000 families• 10,000 scavengers
working everyday from 6am to 5pm
• Earn Pesos 2,000/mth = US$44
• Many scavengers are addicts on Methamphetamine
Exploitation of the Poor!
• 500 trucks per day enter Payatas tip
• Each truck is charged 350 Pesos to unload
• Gangs control who gets to scavenge in the tip
• The scavengers have to bribe the gangs to be able to scavenge
• Where is the justice for the poor?
• The Municipality may have to move the tip?
Can anything good come out of a place like this?
• 80% is recyclable• Plastic bags are
washed in the nearby creek, and baled for reprocessing
• Tyres are used to make sandals
• Food scraps can feed pigs and make worms
• All metals, glass and plastics can be sold
• Kids whose parents are drug addicts can collect rubbish and sell it to get money for food
• The smell of the rubbish tip is overwhelming
• Sometimes rubber and plastic is burned
• There is plenty of food waste
Resources?
• There is a water and good electricity supply
• There are several pre-schools and schools in the Payatas B settlement
• There is a concrete road two thirds of the way into the settlement
• There are many types of transport readily available for hire
• Many women have no work
• There are hundreds of young men looking for work
• There are internet Café’s in the slum at very reasonable prices
• A major market is close by
• Most slum dwellers have unused land around there houses – up to 600m2
• The land is fertile and the climate is very good
20 pastors and leaders train to help the poor in Payatas
• 20 passed the week long training course
• Three new income generating cooperatives were birthed.
• They will employ 80 people directly and provide an extra 6,000 – 8,000 Pesos per month to 80 families.
How much capital is required to fund these new projects?
• US$150 to help another squatter family start a pig raising farm.
• NZ$US110 to help a poor family start a duck raising farm.
• Donate US$375 to start a sandal making cooperative
This information was gathered in
• One week living in the slum community
• Three entrepreneurs were located who were ready to implement the three cooperatives
• The pastor knew a person who was ready to fund these cooperatives
What can you do in the slum you are praying for?
• People are waiting for you to help them, bring them hope
• God is wanting to help you – their needs are a burden on His heart
• Pray, build relationships, research, organise, act, and see what God will do.