The Story of SDI President Jockin Arputham
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Fr. Jorge Anzorena, SJ SELAVIP OCTOBER 2014 NEWSLETTER Journal of Low-Income Housing in Asia and the World Published with the generous aasistance of Misereor of Germany and the Jesuit East Asian Assistance by PAGTAMBAYAYONG FOUNDATION, Inc. 102 P. del Rosario Ext. Cebu City 6000 Philippines Fax. : [+63-32] 253 – 7974 Tel. : [+63-32] 418 - 2168 Email : [email protected] This publication is not covered by copyright and may be quoted or recopied in part or in full with or without acknowledgement or notice to its authors and publishers although such would be highly appreciated. About the Cover The sketch entitled "A Dream of Home" is by Raymund L. Fernandez, a socially oriented artist from Cebu City, Philippines. Raymund teaches art at the University of the Philippines and writes for the Cebu daily News. Many of his columns are featured in this and in previous issues. Raymund explains: “A house is every person's container of all that he or she dreams of and can dream about. It is the person himself or herself in the concrete, or of wood or bamboo or soil which constitute the safe space over which the person might build all his or her aspirations. Over these the person puts a roof to guard against the forces. The house is the beginning and end of the person. It is the primal unit from which we build the citizen, the citizenry and the nation.” Table of Content October 2014 NETWORK • The Decent Poor Program (2013-2014) 01 • Cambodia: Training on Settlement National Survey 01 • Extreme Poverty Europe, Posted by JESCO on October 19, 2013 02 • Arif Hasan on Pakistan and OPP 03 • Saying Goodbye to Father Bebot 03 • Fr. John Carroll SJ: Requiescat in Pace 04 THEMES • The Asian Coalition for Community Action Approach to Slum Upgrading 04 • Philippines: Inequality by Raymund L. Fernandez 06 • Philippines: The Dream of a Better Life by Raymond L. Fernandez 07 • Know Your City: Discussing Community-Collected Data at World Urban Forum 7 09 • Indigenous Ideas about “Vivir Bien” (Living Well) Can Help Heal the Planet 11 BRAZIL • Community in Recife, Brazil Granted Land Titles After 5 Decades of Grassroots Organizing 13 INDIA • The Houses Were Made of Cardboard: The Story of SDI President Jockin Arputham 15 • Slum Profiling in India from the 1960s by Shekar Mulyan 17 • Street Vendors Protection Bill Passed in India 18 • Community Toilets 19 JAPAN • Shimojo-mura the “Miracle Village” 23 KOREA • Praying for Father J.V.Daly S.J. and the Poor in Korea 25 • SocialEnterprise 27 MALAWI • Center for Community Organization and Development (CCODE) 28 PAKISTAN • OPP-RTI Latest Development 30 • Supreme Court Orders Re-investigation into the Murder of Perween Rahman 34 PHILIPPINES • Charity by Raymond L. Fernandez 35 • Collaborative Response in Disaster Risk Reduction by Pedro Walpole, SJ 36 • Night Rains by Denis Murphy 39 • St. Hannibal Empowerment Center (SHEC): A Way of 41 Responding to the Poverty Crisis in the Philippines • 25 Years of the Community Mortgage Program by Ana Oliveros 43 SOUTH AFRICA • Boxing and Future Champs 45 • Our Companion and Friend, Patrick Magebhula Hunsley, Passed Away. 47 SIERRA LEONE • Regional Learning from the West Africa Hub Meeting in Sierra Leone 49 TANZANIA • Scaling up Shared Latrine Options: Karakata settlement, Dar-es-Salam 52 THAILAND • Prison Ministry in Thailand 55 UGANDA • Know Your City: Reflections from the Kampala Learning Center 57 USA • Nuns on the Bus. Who are these Nuns? By Charles J. Reid, Jr. 60 ZIMBABWE • The Zimbabwe National Association of Housing Cooperatives 61 (ZINAHCO) Fr Jorge Anzorena, SJ Fr Josse van der Rest, SJ 3-5-13 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo Ms Joan Macdonald, President addresses 153-0041 Japan Postal address: Hogar de Cristo 3812 Tel: 03-3465-0831; Fax: 03-3465-8630 Casilla 112-2. [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] [email protected] SELAVIP NETWORK E.J. Anzorena, SJ October 2014 Asian Coalition for Housing Rights The Decent Poor Program （2013-2014） ACHR's Decent Poor Program with the support of Selavip is entering its third year The Decent Poor program is a tool to help communities and community networks to develop their own systems in ensuring that even the very poorest community members will not be excluded from taking part in the upgrading and housing initiatives being developed in their settlements, even if they cannot afford to take loans or make payments for houses. The program begins with the premise that any urban poor housing process which excludes the poorest and most vulnerable is not solving problems but creating new ones. In this kind of slum upgrading, everyone is in the boat, no matter how much they can or can't afford to pay. The program allows community groups to explore a variety of alternative low-cost construction techniques to build houses for the poorest families, For further information with a grant subsidy of only US$500 per family, and [email protected] a ceiling of US$10,000 per country website : www.achr.net From 2013-2014 in 13 countries 413 of the poorest families have each received a house. The budget was US$200,000 Cambodia Training on Settlement National Survey This training opened on 16 December 2013 at the participants were 75 people from the provincial Community Development Training Center. The government, city district, khan community saving network of Cambodia, ACHR, UNHABITAT and community architect network of Cambodia. This training explained to all participants on the working process on how to fill information in settlement national survey form and on how to make action plans for city-wide upgrading. For further information: [email protected] www.cdfcambodia.net 1 October 2014 Europe Extreme Poverty in Europe （Posted by JESC On October 19, 2013） I. The 26 million unemployed in the EU include 5.5 scarcely touches the consciousness of citizens cast million young people (under 25 years), twice the adrift from the formal economy. proportion as in the whole population. 14 million are ‘NEETS’ – ‘Not in Education, Employment or III. In a digital age, the lack of a basic bank account Training’. 40% of those who leave school itself constitutes a form of social exclusion. 50 prematurely become unemployed. Whereas 35% of million adult EU citizens still lack a bank account, so new jobs require ‘high skills’, 20% of school-leavers they find it much harder to rent an apartment, to get a have what are formally recognized as ‘low-skills’. salary, to receive and pay money safely. The Even in so complex a field as poverty therefore, Parliament advocates for basic banking services to be education is a powerful key towards improvement. free (or at least ‘affordable’, up to 13-14 Euros per Yet under the pressure on public budgets of the year): but there are awkward problems to be resolved economic crisis, education cuts have been made in about access, about short-term overdraft facilities and two-thirds of member states. In 19 states, the cut is fair credit, and about access to those living away ‘relative’, that is, as a proportion of GDP: in 10 states from their native countries. it is an absolute cut. In this way, to limit public debt, There is no single market in banking, so the we threaten any coherent response to the crisis. regulations in member states are diverse. That seems II. Whereas in the heat of the crisis, banks often drew reasonable: but unless the diverse systems are down immense state funds to enable a new start (so coherent, we no longer inhabit, economically fuelling in turn the debt crisis of states) almost speaking, the ‘same European space’. Unexpectedly, nothing has been done by states to enable a fresh start such specific issues threw light on wider problems of for persons who acquired credit-fuelled debt. Many the ‘construction of Europe’: and responding people can never escape from the trap that their effectively to extreme poverty would itself promote future income, as soon as it rose above the formal the construction of Europe. minimum income, was attached by banks (including those banks that themselves required rescue with Excerpts from an article By Frank Turner public funds). Family poverty is both the expression For further information: and a further cause of the structural crisis. The http://jesc.eu/ European Parliament has worked hard to stabilize finance sector: but naturally such macro-level work 2 SELAVIP Pakistan Arif Hasan on Pakistan and OPP Dear Father going to be normal in Karachi for a long time to Thank you so much for your greetings. They come and we have to survive in this milieu. Life goes mean a lot in the world in which we live in Pakistan on. today. Previously, whenever we have had a crisis I Dear Father, I see conflict everywhere today… have known how to react and to participate politically wherever I go. The post war world is dead and its encountering it. For the first time, I am at a loss and neo-liberal replacement already has problems but do not know how to react or what to do. there is no new vision. We need to create this vision Close friends and acquaintances have been just as we had envisaged a new world in the 70's and targeted and killed and I fear very much for Anwar 80's. Rashid who has now been given police protection. I With best wishes and respects, had given up my involvement with the OPP but after Your friend Perween's murder the involvement has resurfaced. Arif Salim has replaced Perween and is doing a very good job inspite of the fact that an attempt on his life For further information: was also made.