Exercise exploring 4 global shanty towns

1. The places we live
4 shanty towns around the world

2. Locate the 4 places
• Caracas
• Kibera
• Dharavi
• Jakarta
• Which city, country and continent is
eash in?

3. 4 Families live in each location
• For the family you have been given:
• Find their location, watch the
introductory images
• Listen to their story
• You must be able to synthesise their
experience - this means stand up, and
tell the class about three of four facts.

4. What to say
• Concentrate on areas of their life such
as:
• Work
• Community
• Housing
• Services and facilities
• http://www.theplaceswelive.com/

5. The families
Arori Dirango Moraa Yusuf
Oviedo Rosales Silva Torrealloa
Chandra Lohar Shilipiri Singh
Asanah’s Imin’s Subur’s Suparno

6. Recording
• As others talk think about how you will
record their ideas; some options
include:
• Freemind
• Venn diagrams
• www.aberrantbee.com