Effects+of+Urban+Slums+Project

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2. Avenues should also be provided to create awareness on sex education and family planning to prevent over population, congestion and spread of sexual transmitted diseases. 3. Community oriented development projects should also be embarked upon. 4. The government should also provide micro- finance banks to take care of the basic needs of the slum dwellers. ||  ||
 * ** SLUM PROJECT IN KADO VILLAGE IN LIFE CAMP AREA ** ||
 * ** NAME OF SLUM VISITED. ** || ** KADO VILLAGE ** ||  ||
 * ** BRIEF HISTORY OF KADO VILLAGE ** || Kado village is headed by a village chief named Esu Dalami Audu. It is one of the settlements occupied mainly by the Gbagyis; other inhabitants are the Hausa’s, Mada’s, Gwandara’s and Tivs They all engage in one economic activity or the other. || Figure 1 Interraction with the chief ||
 * ** ACTIVITIES EMBARKED UPON ** || The learners visited Kado Village slum, interviewed the chief of the village and other slum dwellers. They acted a playlet on the environment, embarked on a placard campaign as well as a cleaning exercise, all to ascertain the challenges faced by the slum dwellers, such as health, drainage, crime, housing and level of poverty. ||  ||
 * ** IDENTIFIED EFFECTS OF SLUMS ** || Problems identified by the learners include; sicknesses such as malaria and typhoid fever, poor roads, housing, drainage, electricity, and environmental hazards. ||  ||
 * ** PROFERRED SOLUTIONS ** || 1. The government should take positive steps towards assisting slum dwellers by providing hospitals, good road networks; make the place habitable and conducive for living. Organizing regular community based environmental exercises.
 * ** LEARNERS PROJECTIONS ON URBAN SLUM ** || In the nearest future, it is hoped that slums will no longer be part of the urban settlement with the cooperation of the government and other stakeholders in the society. ||  ||
 * ** PRODUCTS ** || Learners will revisit the area to ascertain if the slum dwellers have been able to adhere to the new development. The level of compliance with environmental sanitation issues discussed with the slum dwellers, as a form of follow up. Efforts will also be made to contact the relevant authorities on how they could be assisted. ||  ||


 * NAME OF SLUM || OLD GARKI VILLAGE ||
 * BRIEF HISTORY OF GARKI VILLAGE || Garki village is one of the old settlements in Abuja FCT, it was initially occupied by the Gbagyi people who are the Aborigines of the area. However ,the location of the FCT of ||

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**5** || **Good** **4** || **Average** **3** || **Poor** **2** || **Very poor** **1** ||
 * || **Very Good**
 * Do you live in a slum area? ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Have you ever visited a slum before the project? ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Have you effectively identified the effects of slums? ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Were you actively involved in the project as a group? ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Were you actively involved in the project as an individual? ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Did you learn anything from other slums other than the one you visited? ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Did you use ICT to illustrate your result? ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * How did working with others enhance your learning? ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Do urban slums affect you in any way? ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Have you taken any positive step to affect slum as a group, as a result of the project? ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Have you taken any positive step to affect a slum as an individual? ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||


 * G.S.S Garki –Abuja **
 * GROUP B**
 * 1.Sambo David**
 * 2. Daniel Tochi Michael**
 * 3.Ekele Faith**
 * 4. Fidel Lixmc Ogadimma**
 * DEFINITION OF SLUM**
 * A slum, as defined by the United Nations agency UN- HABITAT, is a run – down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47% to 37% in the developing world between 1990 and 2005. However, due to rising population, and the rise especially in urban population, the number of slums dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums and the figure will likely grow to 2 billion by 2030.**
 * Other terms that are often used interchangeably with ‘slum’ include shanty town , favela, skid row, barrio and ghetto although each of these may have a somewhat different meaning.**
 * The origin of the word slum is thought to be the Irish phrase ‘S lome’ (pronounced as s’ lum ae) meaning ‘ it is a bleak or destitute place’.**
 * Recent years have seen a dramatic growth in the number of slums as urban populations have increased in the __Third World (__ developing countries ). More than two out of three urban dwellers in 11 African countries, live in slums as a result of the rate of urbanization. The number of people living in slums in India has more than doubled in the past two decades and now exceeds the entire population of Britain .**
 * CHARACTERISTICS OF SLUMS  **
 * 1.** ** Urban decay **
 * 2.** **High rates of poverty**
 * 3.** **Illiteracy rate is high.**
 * 4.** **Unemployment is common.**
 * 5.** **Crime, drug addition and alcoholism are some of the vices in slums.**
 * 6.** **High rates of disease due to unsanitary conditions.**
 * 7.** **Lack of basic health care and other amenities.**

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 * SOLUTION TO PROBLEMS OF SLUMS**
 * 1.Clearing away the old decrepit housing and replacing it with modern housing.**
 * 2. Promote better sanitation among the inhabitants.**
 * 3. Resettlement for some of the slum dwellers**