While there are many beautiful places nice to visit, there are many places that are miserable you wouldn’t wish to set your feet on. Yes, but not everyone is lucky enough to live in an ideal and safe home and there are people actually living in dangerous situations.
You can take a tour of the worst places in the world right here on this page.
- Dhavari in Mumbai, India
Almost half of the population of Bombay lives in slums. Dhavari houses the largest slum area in Asia with almost 600,000 people. People there engage in small industries (pottery, leather and plastic products and embroidery). The total income of Dhavari reaches a shocking high of 650 million dollars a year, but poor water supply and unsanitary facilities are major public health problems in the places.
- Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya
About one million people live on land filled with garbage. It is the largest slum in Africa. Only 20% gets electricity. There is no source of safe water. The people depend on the dam water which is also the source of certain diseases (cholera and typhoid). There is no available medical assistance from the government; that promotes the spread of the deadly AIDS. Cheap drugs and alcoholic drinks are peoples alternative to problems of unemployment, which results to more crimes and untimely pregnancies which results to abortion.
- Linfen, China
Have you been to the most polluted place in the world? Well one of them is in China’s coal region, Linfen. Poor visibility is the result of the thick dust and smoke. They breathe in polluted and poisonous air. The water from the river is rich with oil causing cancer to the residents. The trees around are equally sick and dry.
- Bassac Apartments, Cambodia
In the 1960s this 300 meter long Bassac apartments was built to provide low cost housing project for the poor. The legal occupants abandoned the place and served as a haven for some 2,500 refugees since 1979. The buildings are now in danger of collapsing due to age and crack on concrete walls caused by parasite plants. Are they waiting for the 2500 residents to be buried alive under the rubbles?
- Mogadishu, Somalia
This is a former port during the 17 years of conflict between opposing military camps since its government’s fall in 1991. Mogadishu is the most chaotic city in the world due to civil unrest and insurgencies causing so many children to be displaced and orphaned. A new federal government is taking over recently to control law and order.
As you see places like these, do you realize how lucky you are? We feel bad for those living there with all kinds of sickness and pollution. How terrible! We can stop hurting the earth. USSR and USA, you are not exempted! The rich countries are also rich with garbage and carbon emission.
Where poor nations are, there are children who need assistance. We are lucky that we are not in their shoes. Let’s be generous and give help for the education of the children in the poorest countries of the world. Donate to the “Children of the Planet Charity Trust” for their cause.