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Colour Me Bright: Mumbai slums get a facelift
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A boy sits on a bicycle next to a newly painted house in a slum at Khar Danda in Mumbai. Houses and shops in the slum colony were painted in the second week of May. (Satyabrata Tripathy/HT Photo)
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The slums at Khar Danda were painted in bright, cheerful colours under the Chal Rang De initiative, which aims to alter the bleak, gloomy image of urban slums. (Ragul Krishnan/HT PHOTO)
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Volunteers and artists were invited to join in and paint the slums. (Ragul Krishnan/HT PHOTO)
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Chal Rang De is a CSR initiative started by FruitBowl Digital, in collaboration with Mumbai Metro One, Snowcem Paints and Co.Lab.Oratory Asia. (Ragul Krishnan/HT PHOTO)
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The first slums in Mumbai to get a makeover were in Asalpha village, Ghatkopar, in December 2017. (Ragul Krishnan/HT PHOTO)
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A volunteer painting the facade of a house in Khar. (Hemanshi Kamani/HT PHOTO)
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