INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. From the Marsha Forest pre-school. It is run by a local NGO, and is supported by the Spastic Society. It runs on a very low budget, and being in the less-developed New Dharavi, has to make do with only intermittent electricity and water supply. It is located just meters from a big sewage and drainage canal. The municipality does not supply electricity here, so they rely on a unreliable pirate connection.

Dharavi is one of Mumbai's biggest and longest standing slums. Home to somewhere between 600 000 and one million people, it is a beehive of recycling and manufacturing industries. However, Dharavi sits on prime real estate right in the heart of the booming megapolis, and is in close vicinity to the new Bandra-Kurla Complex, a new financial hub. Dharavi is now scheduled for redevelopment, meaning everything in the slum, for good and bad, is set to be demolished.