Myself,Shrutika and Kiran we are the 3 co-ordinaors of the Healthy cities Wealthy cities project. we work in Kaulabandar. Shrutika and Kiran were done one pilot project in kaulabandar through the PUKAR’s Youth and Governance project .during that time they realized K.B community have so many problems regarding Health. So we decided do some thing for that community.
We started our work in July2008. Anita our pukar executive director always appreciates our work. we created one Questionnaire, We made our barefoot researcher team for work. Each co-ordinator has 4 researchers. Also we made one team of researcher in Kalabandar itself.
In Kaulabandar there are total 25 lanes and within those 25 lanes there is total 2440 house hold. We divided community into 3 horizontal parts. In my part there are 9 lanes. Kiran’s has 9 lanes and Shrutika’s part made up of 7 lanes. We gave code for each lane i.e. T1, T2, T3………, T9 and
K1, K2, K3……….. ,K9 and S1,S2,S3…………,S7 (T = Tejal’s lane ,K= Kiran’s lane S= Shrutika’s lane) In my part there are total 655 houses, in kiran’s part there are total 917 houses and in shrutika’s part has 868 houses. Out of 2440 houses we collected data from 1000 house holds.
TEJAL.
In Kaula Bandar there is no any toilet facility in the home. These are only three public toilets for all the Kaula Bandar community. These toilets are not free. Providing toilet facilities to community is a big business in Kaula Bandar. Toilets owners charge Rs. 1 for each time on weekday and on weekend when demand is high they charge double amount and earn extra money. Those people who pay this kind of amount only they can use these toilets and those who cannot pay, they find some hidden place or go to near the sea.
Toilet owners throw all waste direct into the sea water and then they take that same sea water for toilets. Toilets in Kaula Bandar are not clean and not good for the health. Many people use open place as a toilets so some time water pipeline goes into their waste. So Jaundice, Typhoid, Loose motions, Cholera, Stomach ache are common diseases in Kaula Bandar. :- Kiran
Our research will make use of a unique research triad that draws upon students from the Harvard School of Public Health, barefoot researchers from PUKAR, and community members from Kaual Bandar.
Social determinants of health
Social factors are 
equally important for the health of urban slums dwellers. The WHO’s Committee on the Social Determinants of Health demonstrates the increasing, and deserved, attention that social determinants of health are receiving.
Along that vein, these images, depicting a south Indian harvest festival, demonstrate how social norms can give rise to risky health behavior. The pictures show that female members of Kaula Bandar have been pierced – with unsterile needles – to allow for the wearing of large metal rods. This practice could give rise to, among other disease, blood-borne illness.
Other social factors influencing health include occupation, and in Kaula Bandar many people work within the community’s small-scale industries. These businesses are highly-unregulated and as such are often operated from miniscule, highly dense, poorly ventilated structures. Such conditions have the potential to encourage accidents, respiratory distress, or the spread of communicable disease.
equally important for the health of urban slums dwellers. The WHO’s Committee on the Social Determinants of Health demonstrates the increasing, and deserved, attention that social determinants of health are receiving.Along that vein, these images, depicting a south Indian harvest festival, demonstrate how social norms can give rise to risky health behavior. The pictures show that female members of Kaula Bandar have been pierced – with unsterile needles – to allow for the wearing of large metal rods. This practice could give rise to, among other disease, blood-borne illness.
Other social factors influencing health include occupation, and in Kaula Bandar many people work within the community’s small-scale industries. These businesses are highly-unregulated and as such are often operated from miniscule, highly dense, poorly ventilated structures. Such conditions have the potential to encourage accidents, respiratory distress, or the spread of communicable disease.
This aerial photo, zoomed into Kaula Bandar, shows the narrow strip of land that is home to some 15 - 25,000 people. The community was formerly part of Mumbai’s ship-building and repair industry, and as the industry grew, thousands of migrant laborers from the Indian state of Tamil-Nadu came and settled nearby. Despite the decline of the shipping industry over time, many of these workers remained in Kaula Bandar, bringing with them their families or starting new ones in the community.
Due to an ongoing land dispute between local and federal authorities, these inhabitants are unrecognized at any level of government and therefore no utilities – electricity, water, etc – are offered to them. Land is federal, but utilities are state and local, and this governance problem has provided obstacles to providing any utilities to this community.
Despite these hardships, the people of Kaula Bandar have survived, and many even operate small businesses within the community. A full understanding of their adaptive behaviors and entrepreneurial minds requires good data, but in insular communities such as an urban slum, these are hard to come by. Thus this research will require a new approach to data collection, and for this we will rely on the barefoot researchers provided by an upstart research initiative in Mumbai, PUKAR.
Due to an ongoing land dispute between local and federal authorities, these inhabitants are unrecognized at any level of government and therefore no utilities – electricity, water, etc – are offered to them. Land is federal, but utilities are state and local, and this governance problem has provided obstacles to providing any utilities to this community.
Despite these hardships, the people of Kaula Bandar have survived, and many even operate small businesses within the community. A full understanding of their adaptive behaviors and entrepreneurial minds requires good data, but in insular communities such as an urban slum, these are hard to come by. Thus this research will require a new approach to data collection, and for this we will rely on the barefoot researchers provided by an upstart research initiative in Mumbai, PUKAR.
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