Author: The Shanty Trust
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“The girls from Tiljala SHED lost all three of their matches but they played their hearts out. They kept practising even during the break”
Rina lives in Topsia Canalside Squatter Community where 710 families live in illegal makeshift shelters beside a stinking open sewer. Rina is 13 years old. She is a member of Tiljala SHED’s newly formed girls’ football squad. Her father is a rickshaw puller who drinks and smokes most of his earnings. Her mother supplements the…
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Delivering Food Parcels in Topsia
On a mission to deliver emergency food rations to one very needy family and two very vulnerable elderly women.This was a difficult day. First we went to Maya’s home – a shelter down a dark alley between the busy road and the sewage canal. Maya has no toilet facilities, no running water and no means…
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Visiting the Park Circus Children’s Club
I don’t know where to begin. I have been visiting Tiljala SHED for 5 years and thought I couldn’t be surprised by anything. Yesterday I was invited to attend school. Local children from the Park Circus Railway Squatters (mostly the children of ragpickers) attend our community centre 5 days a week. This group attends government…