Calcutta, India Slums

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I decided for my project to travel to the Calcutta slums, in India. This region is full of unknown prospects to the outside world and in fact is one of the richest areas. The people in Calcutta go through so much on a daily basis; which these struggles are just normal items to them. The slum districts barely have the needed supplies to survive off of and because of that people have to contribute to illegalized acts such as drug use and prostitution. This sparked my interests and I believe that people should not have to donate to such operations to maintain a lifestyle. I feel that these ways of survival are wrong and something needs to be done. I also found that India has upcoming millionaires and rising housing and business developments. This was intriguing due to the slum conditions next door. If this is happening why can't those people use those funds to help out the slum conditions? Close to half the population lives in the slums, so wouldn't this be an important issue? We, as Americans take so much for granted, that we don't realize when everything comes down to the wire, what is actually important. We have so much these days with new and upcoming technologies that we become insatiable for more, while others are less fortunate trying to live off a dollar or less a day. Why is it that we constantly gain attention, when other nations are ignored?


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