It's looking like my research will be combined with a larger study conducted by BU-IED. This may mean things take longer to get going as it's a big project. Still, hoping at least to get out of the office for some preliminary informal interviews and to talk to other researchers a bit, and to start thinking about study sites. The BU-IED survey will cover around 2000 households in 4 slums. One of them will be the huge Karail slum mentioned below.
In the meantime, more photos of unsafe construction sites and everyday life...
We found this tarantula on the kitchen wall and decided to leave it there, in the hope that it will catch some of the mosquitos. To be honest though it seems better equipped for small mammals. It doesn't bother with a web, preferring to wait for something worth jumping on.
There are also a couple of camera-shy geckos which we hope won't get eaten by the spider.
Me outside the flat, trying to hear the mobile over the traffic noise.
Kids playing in the (somewhat unclean) lake near Karail.
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3 comments:
The spider looks huge, does it have its own room?
Have you been to any of the slum areas yet, are they more or less equivalent or are there slum slum areas of real deprivation?
Keep well.
Steve
You found a tarantula on the kitchen wall and decided to leave it there??!!!
The spider seemed to be minding its own business and they're not poisonous so we left it. There would actually be space for it to have its own room but it seemed happy enough in the kitchen. However it must have been disappointed at the lack of mice and birds passing through our kitchen and left after a few days.
Re the slums, there are definitely good and bad slums. The slum-ish area I walk through every day is peripheral to the big Karail slum and I suspect has much better living conditions than the main part of the slum, e.g. the kids seem happy and healthy, and have shoes, and clean t-shirts provided by their NGO school (with washing powder sponsorship on the front), and never ask for money. There's a lot of traffic passing through the area and people have set up little road side stalls and I think they also catch, dry and sell fish from the fetid lake, so it's maybe easier to make a living there than elsewhere.
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