Fighting Poverty through Fashion – A Case Study
Fighting Poverty through Fashion – A Case Study
Authors : Ananya Kulkarni and Anita Ahuja
The name Bahadurgarh, would in all probability, not ring a bell with most people. It’s just one of those places that happen to exist: unseen, unrecognized. The same would’ve been said of its people until recently. So the question arises, what’s special about Bahadurgarh? And about its people, its residents? The answer lies in the shunned, socially “unfavourable” employment of rag pickers, which is what most residents of Bahadurgarh, in an attempt to earn their bread and butter, are engaged in.
Everybody understands that cleanliness is important, and that the city’s waste must be going somewhere. However, what most people don’t stop to think, is where the city’s waste disappears and who facilitates the process of ensuring city’s cleanliness (or to whatever extent cleanliness exists).
It’s the rag pickers who play an extremely pivotal role in the city’s system of maintaining cleanliness. It’s through the waste collection efforts of the rag pickers that the big industries also thrive on.
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