-People living in slums mostly live in corrugated roofed huts, with no electricity.
-There is an estimated 3.5 million people living in the Dhaka slums
-It takes up 40% of the cities population.
-Most of the migrants who come to Dhaka end up in the slums. According to the International Organization for Migration, some 70 percent of slum dwellers in Dhaka moved there after experiencing some kind of environmental hardship.
-More than 300,000 migrants make the population greater each year, swarming the city in search for jobs.
-Many people living in the slums survive on less than $2 a day
-Because the poverty is so bad, sometimes children are forced to work instead of go to school. They might beg, sell trinkets, or work hard and long hours in factories or stores.
A slum in Dhaka city.
Dangerous living in Dhaka. These huts could fall any second