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A Profile of a Slum Community?

• We need to research and develop a profile of the
  slum community we are planning to work in
• The information is best collected from informal
  observation and conversations with slum dwellers

• Avoid using a questionaire and surveys they
  raise expectations among slum dwellers
• Ascertain, population, family details, main
  occupations, income, services available,
  resources, etc

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What income generating projects can come from
this slum?

• Ask the inhabitants what income generating ideas
  they have?
• This will also help locate the entrepreneurs in
  the community?
• Ascertain what capital is needed to start these
  projects?

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Here is an example

• From Manila, the Capital City of the Philippines
  this slum settlement is the famous Payatas B
  rubbish tip slum 12 km from the Central Business
  District.

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A Picture of the Payatas Rubbish Tip in Manila
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A Profile

• 150,000 inhabitants in Payatas B Settlement
• 20,000 families
• 10,000 scavengers working everyday from 6am to
  5pm
• Earn Pesos 2,000/mth US44
• Many scavengers are addicts on Methamphetamine

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Exploitation of the Poor!

• Where is the justice for the poor?
• The Municipality may have to move the tip?

• 500 trucks per day enter Payatas tip
• Each truck is charged 350 Pesos to unload
• Gangs control who gets to scavenge in the tip
• The scavengers have to bribe the gangs to be able
  to scavenge

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Can anything good come out of a place like this?

• 80 is recyclable
• Plastic bags are washed in the nearby creek, and
  baled for reprocessing
• Tyres are used to make sandals
• Food scraps can feed pigs and make worms
• All metals, glass and plastics can be sold

• Kids whose parents are drug addicts can collect
  rubbish and sell it to get money for food
• The smell of the rubbish tip is overwhelming
• Sometimes rubber and plastic is burned
• There is plenty of food waste

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Resources?

• There is a water and good electricity supply
• There are several pre-schools and schools in the
  Payatas B settlement
• There is a concrete road two thirds of the way
  into the settlement
• There are many types of transport readily
  available for hire
• Many women have no work

• There are hundreds of young men looking for work
• There are internet Cafés in the slum at very
  reasonable prices
• A major market is close by
• Most slum dwellers have unused land around there
  houses up to 600m2
• The land is fertile and the climate is very good

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20 pastors and leaders train to help the poor in
Payatas

• 20 passed the week long training course
• Three new income generating cooperatives were
  birthed.
• They will employ 80 people directly and provide
  an extra 6,000 8,000 Pesos per month to 80
  families.

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How much capital is required to fund these new
projects?

• US150 to help another squatter family start a
  pig raising farm.
• NZUS110 to help a poor family start a duck
  raising farm.
• Donate US375 to start a sandal making cooperative

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This information was gathered in

• One week living in the slum community
• Three entrepreneurs were located who were ready
  to implement the three cooperatives
• The pastor knew a person who was ready to fund
  these cooperatives

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What can you do in the slum you are praying for?

• People are waiting for you to help them, bring
  them hope
• God is wanting to help you their needs are a
  burden on His heart
• Pray, build relationships, research, organise,
  act, and see what God will do.