BeyondDharavi Tours, offers an opportunity to visit some of the worlds exemplar Models working in Dharavi.

Dharavi a densely populated place in a densely populated city called Mumbai. In a Small area of 550 acres, Dharavi shelters almost a millon people in its land hood. Dharavi, once known for Crime & Politics is now emerging as a silent revolution of energy & enterprise, with its new generation of youngsters in last few years.
Dharavi resembles an incubator, a factory of dreams, creating wonders with its amazing lifestyle changing products.  “There are slums of despair, and there are slums of hope. Agents of hope are everywhere in Dharavi, planting seeds of change,”
The truth is that Dharavi is teeming with small businesses making everything from pots and pans to purses and papads. Sure, many of these businesses are illegal, operate without a license, and the workers work too long and too hard and safety norms are flouted…but they Do A Real HardWork and Do Not Steal.



They may be poor but they have pride. Certainly more pride than the Ramalinga Rajus and Harshad Mehtas of the world.
Following are the brief profile of the business and social entrepreneurs as well as activists and organisations that are changing the History of small place called Dharavi
Mushtaq Syed grew up in Dharavi, got into the leather business, and now runs INMA Enterprises, which exports shoes to the US.
Jameel Shah came to Dharavi from Bihar as a boy, and now makes dancing shoes for Bollywood stars; he has his own Facebook page also.
Mustaqeem Bhai came to Bombay from UP, slept on footpaths, learned sowing, and now runs a factory with 400 tailors.
Rani Nadar got an SBI micro-finance loan and now runs a tailoring shop, training and employing dozens of women.
Panju Swamy came from Tamil Nadu as a boy, and now runs the Ayyappan Idli Stall, making 20,000 idlis a day in 10ft X 10ft huts.
Praveen founded the Gurudutt Gymnasium, which has produced award-winning bodybuilders from Dharavi, and some students who now work at Gold’s Gym.
Soaib Grewal graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, and runs Waterwalla in Dharavi, a social enterprise for clean-water technologies in urban slums.
Srini Swaminathan, a BITS Pilani engineer, now teaches in the slum as part of Teach for India; he has devised a ‘moving blackboard’ – an apron he wears, on which students can write.
Anita Patil-Deshmukh is with Pukar (Partners for Urban Knowledge and Research), which trains and involves slum dwellers as researchers in social science projects, such as analyzing the impact of globalization on slums.