Today we did not see much of the fancy Christ University campus, instead we went to the Koramangala slums. The slums are very different from the city of Bangalore. The streets are basically just dust and very narrow. The houses are very small, something around 7 square meters. Some houses are made of concrete and some are made of wood and corrugated plates. The people in the slums are friendly as far as I can tell and live on the streets. The women are busy washing clothes and cooking food when the men are doing metalwork or constructing buildings. The children in the slums play on the streets and luckily some go to school. Next to the people are a lot of animals like street dogs, chickens, goats and some cows. There is a lot of waste in the streets where the animals get their food from. At a glance the slum looks like a place where everything is old and dirty. Luckily there are companies like CSA that want to improve the life conditions of the people who live in these slums. They mainly focus on children and woman because they are considered to be the weaker group. The place we went today is called LR Nagar and is part of the Koramangala slums. There are 83 more slums like LR Nagar that are part of the Koramangala slum. The CSA operates in three of these areas called: LR Nagar, Ambedkar Nagar and Rajendra Nagar. The CSA runs different projects in these areas and also sponsors around 400 children to go to school. The projects they run next to the sponsoring are:
- Transit School: A school for around 30 drop-out children to educate them to such a level where they can go back to the normal school.
- Day Care Centre: This is a place where they take care of little children so that the parents have time to work and earn some money.
- Activity Centre: This is an after school program where the children get lessons in life skills and other subjects like english and math. They also get the opportunity to make their homework.
- Computer Centre: This is a room with about 12 PC's where the children can follow workshops when available. This is where they learn basic computer skills like typing, word, powerpoint.
- Library: This is a room where books are stored for children to borrow and read them.

Today we saw the Transit School, the Day Care Centre, the Activity Centre and the Computer Centre. I met a lot of children there who were very kind and happy to see us. It was great seeing the children being happy but at the same time it was hard to see them living in such a circumstance. The adults in the slums were less extrovert then the children but this was something I was already expecting. I may possibly contribute in the slum projects as well. So today was a lot of impressions and mixed feeling.