Muhammad Babul Hossain, one of the slum's three compost collectors, didn't have a job before the barrel program began, but now he's one of the slum's high-income earners at 4,000 taka ($58) per month.
We passed Port Roosevelt, where there was a glimpse of red-belted ocean-going ships, and sped along a cobbled slum lined with the dark, undeserted saloons of the faded gilt nineteen-hundreds.
Similar to the way someone in Mumbai or Nairobi might use the word " slum, " it's to locate our people and to indict the systems of neglect that created these conditions.