{"id":119,"date":"2012-05-13T11:19:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T11:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2016-01-27T11:21:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T11:21:28","slug":"transition-camp-kitchen-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/transition-camp-kitchen-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Transition Camp Kitchen Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The residents of the Sanjay Nagar slum, in Miraj, moved to a transition camp in October 2011 to allow the slum to be demolished <em>(please refer to \u2018Peaceful relocation of Sanjaynagar Miraj to a transit camp&#8217; within the &#8216;Downloads&#8217; section of this website for more detail)<\/em>.\u00a0 Once the slum was cleared the Sangli, Miraj &amp; Kupwad Municipal Corporation (SMKMC) was able to hand the site over to a contractor whose services had been engaged to carry out the construction of 14 buildings, which will accommodate a total of 434 residential units, on the site as part of the Integrated Housing and Slum Development Program (IHSDP).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to the essential service provided for the transition camp by the SMKMC (potable water, toilets, electricity and public lighting) the residents have established their own social services to suit their own specific requirements; the beneficiaries have established their own school (for the small children of the camp) and two shops.\u00a0 The beneficiaries have also started to use much of the land immediately outside of their transit house and land around the transition camp for producing their own vegetables.\u00a0 This local production of food reduces the beneficiaries\u2019 expenses and reduces the requirement to bring vegetables into the community from outside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/slum.shelter-associates.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/large\/public\/DSCF4513.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The residents of the Sanjay Nagar slum, in Miraj, moved to a transition camp in October 2011 to allow the slum to be demolished (please refer to \u2018Peaceful relocation of Sanjaynagar Miraj to a transit camp&#8217; within the &#8216;Downloads&#8217; section of this website for more detail).\u00a0 Once the slum was cleared the Sangli, Miraj &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,9,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelter-associates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}