Shelters
Our India Collective is focusing on a wide range of migrant worker shelter projects
A pilot project in Narol Industrial estate, Ahmedabad:
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS
Implementation in Progress....
Current shelters for the boiler room workers and families
Schematic Rendered Shelters are being implemented for the industrial workers (7 families - including 6 children and 4 single males) at a textile factory. Common front area, includes a common play area while maintaining individualized space for each unit
Safe
clean
ventilated, natural light
insulation
washrooms and Toilets
Insulated walls, Screened section of the roof, Bamboo mats for inner walls, foldable beds, storage space, fan...
OUR PARTNERS for SHELTERS FOR THE
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS
Co-Solve Collective
Visioning of the project, building of this collective of the partners, and providing seed funding for demonstration and advocacy
Sah Karyam Foundation
PARTNERS
Project Management, Construction Quality Monitoring
Aajeevika Bureau
Partner with strong rapport with the Industrial workers, owners, and advocacy for dignified shelters and other services for migrant workers
Indian Institute of Human Settlement IIHS
Data and documentation of the evolving process and developing advocacy and policy insights over time
Compartment S4
Architecture and fabricator management
Their Story...Our Part...
Undocumented migrant workers and their families, predominantly from the tribal belts of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, are exposed to hazardous and toxic working conditions in the chemical and textile processing industries of Ahmedabad. Their abject poverty and disempowered situation compels them to live close to boilers and toxic chemicals.
Aajeevika Bureau - a well regarded NGOs for developing systemic solutions for migrant workers - shared with Co-Solve team about hundreds of industrial units in Ahmedabad alone where there is a great need for safe, clean and dignified shelters and social services for the industrial workers. But the status-quo of how workers live in and around the factories is hard to shake. Aajeevika Bureau team knew just which owners are the best first ones to approach, while Co-Solve developed a compelling vision and hired Compartment S4, an architect firm of young architects who designed the shelters with the inputs of all parties.
Through dialogue, persuasion and back-stopping support, the factory owners have been enabled to take a lead role in addressing this challenge, including paying for the shelters. Moreover, India's well-known Bengalaru-based Indian Institute of Human Settlement has joined our collective for documenting and data gathering for policy advocacy over time. Sah Karyam Foundation will do the project management and quality monitoring, while all partners in the collective will plan out strategies to scale the successful demonstration elsewhere,
Two institutional clients in Gujarat have invited Co-Solve to propose end-to-end integrated Shramik (labour) park solution and services for the construction workers who will work at their large construction project.
Co-Solve's role is to be the client's resource partner to create an integrated housing and community site with comprehensive service provisions for their workers.
Industrial Workers
Co-Solve's Ahmedabad Collective is partnering with an NGO to reach out to willing factory owners and empowering the owners to provide safe shelter for their workers in chemical and textile small-scale industries. Currently the workers live inside factories with hazardous conditions. Co-Solve Collective has funded the pilot project at three sites and hired a local architecture company to co-design with the workers their shelters in safe site.
Large
Construction Sites
Co-Solve has been partnering with local workers' union, and construction industry stakeholders in Ahmedabad to jointly advocate to the urban development authorities, governmental agencies, and and political leaders to allocate land for temporary shelters for daily wage workers (naka workers) and families with no steady employers who traditionally live in open public or unauthorized spaces. As a result of the informal living conditions they do not receive any basic services.
The kind of shelter you see here must be replaced with dignified model.
Co-Solve has been approached by a corporate foundation in South Gujarat to guide them to serve their constituent communities where many small brick workers come with their children and work seasonally and live in informal shelters. They need better shelters, schooling, and health and nutrition programs. Co-Solve has been a resource connector in this project.
Bricklayers
Daily Wage
Workers