WHAT ARE SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS? In Lagos, the lack of housing and rapid rate of ____ has forced millions of people to build their own ____. These are typically on land they do not ____. However, in Lagos, some homes have been built on ____. Squatter settlements are any collection of ____ where the people have no ____ rights to the land they are built upon. The people are living there illegally and do not own the land. They provide housing for many of the world’s ____ people and offer basic shelter. Homes in squatter settlements are typically constructed from ____ material including wood, plastic sheeting and corrugated metal when they are first built. Over time more sophisticated materials can be used to improve the ____ of housing. Squatter settlements are not only found in Lagos. They are located in all cities in low-income countries and newly emerging countries all around the world. They can also be called informal settlements, ____, favelas, barrios or slums. WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS OF LIVING IN A SQUATTER SETTLEMENT? Population ____ is very high in squatter settlements in Lagos. This is because of the lack of available ____ to build on. The area known to outsiders as Makoko is actually ____ distinct “villages” spread across land and water: Oko Agbon, Adogbo, Migbewhe, Yanshiwhe, Sogunro and Apollo. The first four are the ____ communities, known as “Makoko on water”; the rest are based on land. In these floating communities, homes are built on ____ on the edge of the Lagos Lagoon. It is estimated that a quarter of a ____ people live in Makoko. The homes are built from materials such as wood and ____ sheets. They do not have basic facilities or ____. Most of the residents of Makoko work in the ____ economy or make a living by fishing. SHOULD MAKOKO BE DEMOLISHED OR IMPROVED? Even though it has many problems the people in Makoko are very ____ and protective of their homes. After all, it is their home. Residents have already taken steps to improve services crisscrossing the lagoon bed are ____, paid for and laid by enterprising residents to bring in clean water – for a modest fee – from ____ in neighbouring Sogunro. Makoko Floating ____, designed by architect Kunlé ____, has become the community’s most popular and famous building. Doctors Without Borders opened a floating ____ in January 2011; although very popular when it launched, it stayed open less than a ____. Today Makoko continues to be served by a network of informal, unregistered clinics that attend to basic ____. There are also a number of traditional ____ attendants who deliver Makoko’s babies in an atmosphere of high levels of maternal ____. However, the ____ want to demolish it to help improve the ____ of the city. Though residents have nowhere else to live. In recent years the authorities have demolished areas of squatter settlements, like the one in 2012. ____, a swampland settlement on the edge of the city’s Apapa ____, was one of the worst-hit targets. More than ____ people have lost their homes.

Squatter Settlements Makoko

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