Chennai slum Dwellers and the Effective NGOs

Chennai is the 4th largest city of India. It was famous as Madras during the British era and is legendary by the excellent and distinctive Madras curry still named like that in our day. The city prides itself of sprawling beaches, a magnificent Marina, awe-inspiring Temples and up to date Universities, Cultural centers and more. The flip side is that 25 percent of Chennai’s population dwells in the slums.

In accordance to the Census of India, the definition of a slum is "a compact area of at least 300 in population or about 60-70 households of poorly built, congested tenements in an unhygienic setting usually with not enough infrastructure and missing proper sanitation and drinking water facilities." More than 30% of the shanties in these slums have no drainage systems. These inhabitants are exposed to waterborne medical conditions like Malaria due to the lack of civic amenities. The residents of slums are unendingly gripped in the fear of pulling down of their homes due to urban development activities.

The slums are typically huts built with materials like plastic or tin sheets in a irregular manner without appropriate access, congested and overcrowded. The lack of educational, health and recreational facilities in the slums make their lives worse, plunging them into evils like unemployment, crime, and drug and alcohol abuse. The women and children are the worst affected and they are mostly deprived of the major necessities of life.

There have been constant efforts and developmental work by the government and voluntary service by Non-profit organizations and NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) to meet the growing needs of the ever escalating slum people. These efforts directed by various welfare schemes are aimed at forming awareness about hygiene, and to educate them about their civil rights and on how to develop their lives.

Here are a few NGOs that are occupied in helping the slum populations to relieve poverty, illiteracy and unemployment.
ANEW (anewindia.org) This is an society for Non-Traditional Employment for Women. ANEW is a non-profit charitable organization centered at Chennai. It was established with a mission to enhance the socio-economic status of young, underprivileged women by empowering them with self confidence and requisite skills to enable them to become self-reliant and contribute to family and society. ANEW is devoted to helping young women gain access to workable job skills and good paying full time jobs. By and large, employment choices for women from underprivileged families in India are restricted to "traditional" jobs in agriculture and low-skilled handicraft labor. In many cases these women are exploited or underemployed. Over the last few years ANEW has offered women of the underprivileged section of society with the training necessary to become home nurses, computer operators, car drivers and Auto rickshaw drivers.
Karunakarya (Karunakarya.org) has been doing worthy work helping slum dwellers of Chennai (formerly Madras) to integrate into society. Karunakarya motivates and enables children to secure admission to state run schools, gives various after school applications and seeks to equip young people in getting professional training. Karunakarya supports the poorest of the poor in slums and villages with medical aid and relief. They also offer awareness programs for slum-dwellers where they be taught about their civil liberties and develop problem solving skills. Their plans are meant to enrich and empower the poorest in society so they can take reliability for locating solutions to the trouble in their own communities.

We salute these NGO’s for their kind and valuable contribution to the future of generations to come. It is said that once the cycle of poverty is defeated it never again returns

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