The Better India team got an opportunity to visit the well-known Dharavi community through a remarkable initiative of Dharavi Diary group. The project started with a bunch of youngsters with a will to make a difference through their creativity. Mr. Nawneet Ranjan, a social entrepreneur and a filmmaker along with his crew started working on a documentary “Dharavi Diary” to dwell deep into their lives and to understand their needs, their struggles, their happiness and the way they live.
Dharavi is Asia’s largest slum with over one million people packed into a labyrinth of dark alleys. Numerous movies have been made on Dharavi in the past but this group decided to take their project to the next level and extend the idea of storytelling to Slum Innovation. The rather infamous Dharavi is the green heart of the great city of Mumbai wherein a majority of the people in the slum have created an identity by making this place a recycling....
