It makes me rethink the phrase slumming it

Today I learned that an NGO run slum is not really a bad place to be. In fact, if I lived in Dhaka, I think I would prefer to live there then other parts of the city. It was more like a community full of working people rather than a ghetto where the rich have confined the drug addicts and desperate women that eventually turn to prositution. We visited a microfinance meeting and heard how small loans have helped out people, a birthing center where my fears of child birth were reinforced yet again, and a primary school. Details to follow.