February 2023

Home-Based Worker Stories: Meet Savitri Kotrik, a papad-maker from Dharavi, Mumbai, India

Written by Jarina Shaikh and Jyoti Baiballi from LEARN, India. Savitri was born and raised in Dharavi and lives there with her parents. Touted as the world’s largest slum, Dharavi is home to approximately 1 million people and 15,000 single-room factories. It has the highest population density of 0.34 million per km2. Most of Dharavi’s 55,000...