Sheela Patel
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Sheela Patel is an activist and academic involved with people living in slums and shanty towns.
Patel speaking at the 2011 Opening Plenary of World Water Week
Pavement dwellers
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Pavement dwellers refers to informal housing built on the footpaths/pavements of city streets. The structures use the walls or fences which separate properties from the pavement and street outside. Ma
Sheela Patel
…founding director of the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), which she set up in Mumbai in 1984 as an advocacy group for the pavement dwellers of Mumbai. SPARC continues to this day to play a major role in the politics of slum development in India and throughout the Third World. In 2000, SPARC…
Street dwellers in Mumbai