Meeting Minutes, July 7th 2009

Today's meeting covered:

1. Summary of Saturday's visit
• Met Perulmalswamy
• Found two slums, approximately 350 houses in total.
• Several houses were burned down in the second slum
• People seemed receptive to our help.
2. Discussing the online Twitter presence
3. Pros and cons of adopting the new slums
• Along the river- risk of demolition
• Discussed new plans by Indian Government to be 'slum free' by 2013.
4. Decision made to start in a new place
• Census to be taken by the community
• Survey to be done to cover the following aspects: socioeconomic information, sanitation, education and healthcare.
• Probably to be done on Saturday, July 18th, 2009.
5. Survey plan in the works
6. Activity for this weekend (July 11th, 2009)
   
• Reading with the kids/simple games
• Mapping of the community.
7. General Body Meeting
8. Legal discussion