The Slum Crisis

UNESCO reports that over 2 billion people in the world live in slums and that number is expected to double by 2030. That means every day, approximately 250,000 children are born into slums. That's 250,000 more children each day who are denied access to basic human rights such as health and clean water.

The Supply wants to track these human rights violations in slums across the globe. This information will shed light on the slum crisis and allow students and community leaders to understand, discuss, and address the violations in their slum.

The United Nations Millenium Development Goal 7 Target 11 states: "by 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers."

Unfortunately, as we near this hallmark year, conditions have only worsened. The reality is that because of exploitation by local slumlords and neglect from state governments, slum dwellers are left without a voice. Living conditions in slums are often sub-human as the denial of government services lead to children playing in gutters of human feces, houses mounted on heaps of trash, and cesspools that serve as incubators for infectious diseases.