VT IN for residents living in the slum, life is simply a boring pain. there is entrenched poverty but also enduring hope for some. daniel lartey tours the biggest slum in accra and reports, slum dwellers are trying to improve conditions around them despite the seemly hopeless surroundings. Wait for cue V/O It is a home to more than five thousand people, for many of them their parents moved in several years ago. life in old fadama, formerly known as Sodom and Gomorrah, is certainly not ordinary. snd up Its true population is not known and the slum is a depressed one. few steps into the town and you will encounter the korle lagoon, flowing through an open drain. It is littered with refuse, plastic bags, rubber bottles and cow dung. children play bare-footed at the water edge. a jumble of rusted metal roof stretches to the far east. we met 30 year old, adam kadri, a scrap dealer who says he has a wife and three child...
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