Nancy Mean is one of the executive deputies of Professor Karl Swab from the Swaub Foundation and the founder of the World Economic Forum. She wrote to SPARC saying she would be in Mumbai and would love to spend a day with us bringing her husband and son to visit. She first came to the Khetwadi office of SPARC on 3rd April 13 and explained that she was using her Easter break to explore Mumbai and reconfirm for her self she really enjoyed connecting to the city. Her husband, who is a dentist, and her youngest son were completely involved in Nancy’s daily hectic schedule of visiting us and other social networks, eating at local food joints, and meeting and interacting with communities of the poor in cities.
They spent time understanding what the alliance does and its role as facilitating the dialogue between the city and the informal and urban poor living in slums. They spent the afternoon with families residing in Mankurd, the first households who designed and undertook their relocation from the railway site.
Nancy is a Canadian living in Geneva for many years now and finds an amazing energy in Mumbai which is clearly something special and unique.
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