Mumbai is one of the great cities of the world. As a world-class commercial and financial centre, with impressive and historic architecture and many facilities for tourism, it is a city of which India is rightly proud.

Its vibrancy and wealth attracts millions of migrants from the countryside onto this crowded island and the social facilities and infrastructure are incapable of handling such numbers.

As a result, there is vast and almost unimaginable poverty for those who are unable to take hold of the opportunities this city promises. But there is also a vibrant beauty to slum life for those who choose to explore its paradox:

Experience for yourself the warm welcome you receive when volunteering in Mumbai – the bright festivities; the dogged resourcefulness; the appetite for life found here from those who have so little but live so fully.

Lok Seva Sangam (LSS) operates in the slums of Mankhurd, Chunabhatti, and Baiganwadi in the Govandi district. LSS provides education to more than 250 children. LSS also carries healthcare projects, through its Mobile Bus Clinic and programmes for communities’ development and empowerment. Most of its local staff is formed of women who live in the slums of Mumbai.

The sisters of Auxilium support the community of the slum in Wadala Road. They provide education for the slum children with primary schools and after-school projects. They also manage a programme for long-distance child adoption and child sponsorships.

Interested to volunteer in Mumbai by supporting after-school projects or sponsoring a child?