Shelter

Seven families of a leather factory workers cram into a single room at a slum in Kolkata where each family has a chowki (wooden cot) to live on. A recent report says 33 percent of the city’s population lives in the slum with an approximate number of 1,600,000 and most of them are staying far below poverty level.

Seven families of a leather factory workers cram into a single room at a slum in Kolkata where each family has a chowki (wooden cot) to live on. A recent report says 33 percent of the city’s population lives in the slum with an approximate number of 1,600,000 and most of them are staying far below poverty level. [Photo was taken by an Indian photographer Sudipto Das in Kolkata of India on April 1, 2010. ]