Day 3!!

 

To start the day off, we drove to Bright Future School where we met 3 of the teachers who gave us a tour of the slums! After a quick and bumpy ride we arrived surprisingly just down the road from Bright Future. This then became evident that some of the children have to return back to the slums after being at school. Yet they are considered as one of the lucky ones for having the opportunity to gain an education.
When first walking into the slums, what hit us all was the stench of stagnant sewage, the hectic atmosphere and the cramped, horrific living conditions. To say it was shocking would be a complete understatement. However, what we went to see next was something quite distressing to come across. Prostitution runs rife throughout the particular slum we visited and isn't something that can be ignored.  Yet to understand the reasoning behind the desperate act it had to be experienced. Following on from a short conversation we found out that the sexual exploitation taking place is happening because they have no other way of surviving. This to all of us was extremely hard hitting and upsetting.
Our group then went onto visit several of the local markets where the conditions where equally shocking. With the range of fruit and meat laid out on mats which swarmed with flies. Again the smell of the sewage was horrendous with the sewage ditches going through the market. Yet the people there seemed unaffected by the conditions as this was there everyday life.