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Despite India’s much-touted recent economic success, the country’s lowest classes continue to struggle for the most basic necessities. Recent efforts at improving sanitation in Dharavi have been spearheaded by the UN World Health Organization with a US $40 million loan from the World Bank to help install public toilets and a more efficient sewage system. Dharavi’s residents, however, have yet to see much improvement in their quality of life.

Zvika Krieger is a senior Political Science major at Yale University. He traveled to India in 2005 with the support of the South Asian Studies Grant, and his pictures were printed with the support of the Silliman College Sudler Fund.