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Gender | Dharavi's grit-Coming soon to an app store near you -MarishaThakur

Dharavi's grit-Coming soon to an app store near you -MarishaThakur

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published Published on Oct 15, 2014   modified Modified on Oct 20, 2014
-DNA

Algebra and English have been just some of the stumbling blocks for the young girls of Dharavi. But that didn't stop them from developing prototype apps to resolve the daily problems that plague their neighbourhood, finds Marisha Karwa

Sapna's hair is neatly parted at the centre, each side braided into a double plait, tightly held in place at the top by red, organza ribbons. The Class 9 student of Mahim's K.J. Khilnani School buries her head into her algebra book as I shoot a question her way. But slowly, she looks up, gets over her shyness and says in a clear, composed voice: "Our app is called, Padhai, mera hak."

Sapna, five other girls, four women and I are sitting in a room, no bigger than 8X10ft, off one of Dharavi's many narrow alleys on the fringes of Mahim, Mumbai. The dimly-lit room, with its sparse furniture, two sewing machines and several hand-drawn posters, forms the epicentre of this motley crowd's universe. It is here that Sapna and 11 of her friends built prototypes of three mobile apps, perhaps the first time that girls from a slum have attempted to wield technology to resolve the sprawling area's nagging problems -- long queues at the water tap that often end in fisticuffs, harassment by boys and illiteracy due to high, school drop-out rates.

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DNA, 12 October, 2014, http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-dharavi-s-grit-co
ming-soon-to-an-app-store-near-you-2025253


DNA, 12 October, 2014, http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-dharavi-s-grit-coming-soon-to-an-app-store-near-you-2025253


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