WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Reality Tours Delhi In Dharavi and later in at the Diwali party for the ragpickers, we met two very good guys, one from the UK, Chris Way, and the other from India, Krishna Poojari, who had set up an interesting business called Reality Tours and Travel. They had begun over the last two or …
Ragpickers Diwali October 30, 2008 Mumbai As part of ACORN International, ACORN India, and the ACORN Foundation’s program, we have initiated the Dharavi Project, as an initiative for the ragpickers. I will talk more about this in coming days, because it is an exciting project and an interesting and different strategy for us to …
Dharavi Recycling Centers Mumbai The Dharavi neighborhood is famous in Bombay at least as famous as a mega-slum can be with almost a million people living in a slum almost in the center of the city on what remains of all wetlands from the rancid remains of a river running to the Indian Ocean …