INDIA: INDIAN SLUMS HOPE TO BENEFIT FROM UN INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF SHELTER FOR HOMELESS.
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858686
INDIA: INDIAN SLUMS HOPE TO BENEFIT FROM UN INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF SHELTER FOR HOMELESS.
- Title: INDIA: INDIAN SLUMS HOPE TO BENEFIT FROM UN INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF SHELTER FOR HOMELESS.
- Date: 11th December 1986
- Summary: JAIPUR, INDIA (RECENT) (REUTERS - MOHAMED AMIN) SCU Ingrid Munroe, Director of International Year of Shelter for the Homeless. TRANSCRIPT: MUNROE: (SEQ 1) "Not only is it a very unhealthy place, they live very, very crowded, unbelievably crowded, in small shacks that cannot even keep the rain out and the cold in the winter. But it is also a very unhealthy environment with the garbage lying all over. The smell is unbelievable; there is no drainage, so when the rains come the water stays in pools, and it becomes a breeding place for insects and other ... incidents that cause diseases." 3.04 NEW DELHI , INDIA GV & SVs Shanty-town, sewer running down main street. (2 SHOTS) 0.42 SV PULL BACK TO GV Children urinating in street. (2 SHOTS) 0.50 CALCUTTA , INDIA SV Old woman begging. 0.54 CU Sewer PAN TO children standing in doorway. 1.05 SV PULL BACK GV Children sitting outside shanty town hut. 1.13 SV & SV PAN People sitting on ground in shanty town. (2 SHOTS) 1.34 SV Children looking through rubbish. 1.40 JAIPUR GV PAN & SVs People constructing shelters in shanty town. (6 SHOTS) 2.23 SV Naked Children playing in dirt. 2.32
- Embargoed: 26th December 1986 12:00
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- Location: India, India
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- Country: India
- Topics: International Relations,Economy,Politics,Social Services / Welfare
- Reuters ID: LVADTKUKQHT0AUINJ3256BOSZXS7
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- Story Text: The United Nations (UN), faced with one quarter of the world's populations living in inadequate housing and one hundred million people completely homeless, has designated 1987 as International Year of Shelter for the Homeless. The move represents the culmination of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) four-year effort to persuade governments to provide basic facilities for their poor. Ingrid Munroe, director of the United Nations' 1987 programme, recently expressed concern at the crowded, unhealthy conditions in the slums of Jaipur, India. A housing scheme is currently underway in the city. In New Delhi, sewage runs down the streets of the capital's shanty-town area. In Calcutta, ten-and-a-half million people live in a town built for two million, and as a result of overcrowding, one-and-a-half million people live in the streets. Conditions are unsanitary in the port city which produced 14 tonnes of garbage each week. A proper sewage system is available to no more than 20 per cent of the area. People bathe in the Hooghly River into which domestic and industrial sewage is deposited. The United Nations Children's Fun (UNICEF) 1987 report refers to the "silent emergency" of frequent infection and malnutrition which claim the lives of 14 million children under the age of five each year. The report points out that the lives of four million children have been saved over five years due to UNICEF immunisation programmes and the introduction of saline solutions to diets. In 1987 homeless people in Indian cities will benefit from UN schemes set up to avoid a situation which could lead to almost two billion people living in shanty towns by the year 2000.
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