Pavement Dwellers’ Sanitation Activities – Visible but Ignored

December 2012

Pavement dwellers are often invisible to government, development partners and researchers, even though they comprise 2 per cent of the urban population and their entire lives are on full display to passers-by every day.

Shelter and security, convenience and privacy are considered essential for all, yet even these are lacking for the poorest of the urban poor.

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PublisherWaterlines
CountryBangladesh, India
ThemesHomeless people, Leave no one behind
LanguageEnglish

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