Mumbai Makeover (2008): Locals are afraid that the ambitious rehousing programme in Mumbai’s slums will cause them to lose out.
1 Not Everyone Is Happy About Mumbai’s Slum Redevelopment
30 jun. 2016
Located in the heart of Mumbai, the Dharavi slum is like a city within the city. Now ambitious plans for redevelopment mean its days are numbered.
Home to one million residents, Dharavi is a hive of activity, providing Mumbai with an essential recycling service. However, the slum will soon give way to brand-new apartments. Developers claim everyone will be re-housed into better accommodation, but unfair rules mean most families wont be able to benefit from the change. Driven out of their homes, they will lose everything. As one mother puts it: ”We will stay here until they demolish, then we’re in the hands of God.”
Production Company – Ref. 3857
Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world’s most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world’s top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you’ll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.
2 In India sterven de armsten in het riool – RTL NIEUWS
30 aug. 2019
Het is levensgevaarlijk en ongelofelijk vies. In India speelt het leven van de allerarmsten zich af in het riool, dat ze met hun blote handen moeten ontstoppen. Alleen al dit jaar zijn daarbij zeker 50 mensen omgekomen.
5 Zabbaleen Trash Town A whole community in Egypt that lives on rubbish
6 ToxiCity life at Agbobloshie, the world’s largest e waste dump in Ghana
Back to menu PAINFULL and SHOCKING
7 Les métiers de l’impossible – Dans Les Faubourgs de Calcutta
8 The Children Risking Their Lives In Underwater Gold Mines
24 jul. 2015
Many of Philippines’ 5.5 million child workers are risking their lives digging for “Dirty Gold” in unbelievable conditions. Desperate men and children scour underwater mine-shafts in this terrifying report.
Breathing through nothing more than a thin pipe connected to an air compressor, going 30 foot deep underwater for hours in search of gold is all in a day’s work for 16-year-old Gerald. “I’m afraid, if the earth collapses, I will get buried underneath” says the teenager. Surrounded by rock walls in the pitch black darkness of the water, the men chip away at walls for 3 hours. They find no gold. For many like Gerald school is a distant memory, and illegally diving for gold the only alternative to starvation. Hundreds of deaths by electrocution, drowning and even the possibility of Mercury poisoning have had little impact on compressor mining activities, which continue un-policed and unregulated. There appears little hope of change on the horizon. “If I could only give job opportunities – I will take them away from compressor mining. It is just that I have no alternative at this point” says Ricarte Padilla, Mayor of Jose Panganiban – Philippines’ so-called “Gold Coast”. As it is, the children and family men unearthing 60-80kg of gold per month see the lions share of wealth disappear into the Chinese black market.
ABC Australia – Ref 6514 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world’s most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world’s top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you’ll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about
IMPORTANT CONTENT
IMPERATIVE TO SEE THIS VIDEO
It is haertbreaking painful what happens!
10 Philippines: Deliverance – The Slum (Episode 1)
Gepubliceerd op 19 sep. 2014
Philippines-The Slum – Episode 1: Deliverance
As a birth attendant advocating for family planning, Remy is on the frontline of Tondo’s battle with overcrowding.
Tondo in northern Manila is home to the city’s largest collection of slums. It is also one of the most densely populated areas on the planet.
Paradise Heights, home to former squatters, is in the heart of Tondo. There, self-taught midwife Remy Permites is delivering new life in the slums. Remy does her work with only the most basic equipment: a stethoscope, a pair of gloves and little else. Though she has little formal training, she plays a crucial role in an area where few can afford to pay for medical care.
The slums of Manila are undergoing a population explosion. But Remy has managed to escape the shacks and lives in a small government-built apartment, with 14 members of her family. Her home also doubles as a makeshift clinic.
Along with delivering babies, Remy is responsible for delivering paperwork. She continues her training, takes classes on birth control, helps a young girl bury her stillborn baby, and along with family planning advocate Jane, educates women to have smaller families.
Meanwhile, a few kilometers to the south of Remy’s clinic is Beseco slum with a population of about 45,000. There, fisherman and father of nine, Gener Pagtabunan struggles to feed his family by trying – mostly unsuccessfully – to catch fish in the polluted harbour.
His wife Lorna tries to supplement their income by selling fruit and vegetables from the front of their tiny shack. But it is a struggle for the growing family to make ends meet. Lorna, who wants to ensure her 21-year-old daughter and mother of three does not make the same mistakes she did, takes her to get a contraceptive injection.
About the series: This six-part series follows residents of Manila’s Tondo slum as they live, love, survive and aspire in some of the world’s toughest living conditions.
11 Risky Business – The Slum (Episode 2)
Gepubliceerd op 26 sep. 2014
12 Storm Rising : The Slum (Episode 3) | Al Jazeera Documentaries
Al Jazeera English
Gepubliceerd op 3 okt. 2014
Storm Rising: Manila’s slum dwellers under threat
Sandwiched between a polluted harbor and a busy highway is the charcoal- making a community of Ulingan- in Manila, with a population of 40,000.
Husband and wife team Judy and Babes Barines have operated a charcoal pit for the last nine years. They invested all their savings in charcoal-making but have to make some difficult decisions when their investment is wiped out by a tropical storm that hits the south of the country.
A few kilometers east of the Barines’ charcoal pits, corn seller and mother of nine, Bebe, is starting work. But she has not managed to escape the storm either. She has to repair her makeshift home under a bridge and work out how to make a living as her supply of corn dries up.
Meanwhile, Pilipinas Got Talent superstar, Frankendal, is also feeling the effects of the typhoon. He has not heard from his mother and grandmother since the storm, so he heads to the region to look for them. As a former slum dweller, he knows just how precarious life can be.
The six part-series follows residents of Manila’s Tondo slums as they live, love, survive and aspire in some of the world’s toughest living conditions.
13 Vote for me – The Slum (Episode 4)
Gepubliceerd op 10 okt. 2014
14 For Love or Money – The Slum (Episode 5)
15 The Slum: Episode 6 – Breaking Out
26 okt 2015
24 okt. 2014
For the majority of Manila’s slum dwellers, home is a school of hard knocks and the only way out of their desperate situations is in a box.
Generations have been born and will die in Tondo. But against the odds, a few do succeed in escaping the slums, and some even move on to better lives, achieving wealth and success beyond their wildest dreams.
Jessa Balote, 15, lives in Aroma slum where she shares one room with her family of nine. When they first arrived in Tondo, the family worked as scavengers – the default job for newcomers to the slums.
Elsewhere, mixed martial arts fighter Jessie Rafols faces hard knocks. He has become known as ‘The Finisher’ and excels among fighters in the Philippines.
Growing up in the slum has given him a hunger for success, but disaster strikes, and six months of training may come to nothing after he injures his knee four weeks before a fight.
Fighting is not the only way to break out of the slum. Would-be model Justine, 17, is earning her way out, performing in pageant and fashion shows. But she is also seeing the murkier side of the industry, and finding that the reality of making a living through modelling is far from glamorous.
This six-part series follows the residents of Manila’s Tondo slum as they live, love, survive and aspire in some of the world’s toughest living conditions.
16 Exposing The Inhumane Conditions Of Burkina Faso’s Gold Mines
19 sep. 2016
For similar stories, see:
The Children Working On Indian Coal Mines https://youtu.be/0ZA5Az09Zj4
Dangerous ‘Rat-Hole’ Mining Destroying India’s Environment https://youtu.be/jEcA6jnaRek
In Nicaragua Children Work in Quarries Instead of Going to School https://youtu.be/y35aStP7BHw
For downloads and more information visit: https://www.journeyman.tv/film/6750/g…
Wild Angle Productions – Ref. 6750 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world’s most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world’s top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you’ll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.
17 THE HUMAN Side of INDIA’S BIGGEST SLUM 
18 Deep Sea Denture Diving
17 dec. 2013
Gags are filmed in Québec. Originality, authenticity and joie de vivre…
A presentation of the official Just For Laughs Gags YouTube channel. Home of the funniest, greatest, most amazing, most hilarious, win filled, comedy galore, hidden camera pranks in the world!