Reality Tours and Travel

Reality Tours and Travel runs guided walking tours through Dharavi, one of Asia's largest urban slum areas, alongside city, heritage and multi-day tours across India. The Dharavi tour walks through the area's small-scale industries, recycling, pottery, leather and bakery workshops among them, as well as its residential streets, showing a working neighbourhood rather than staging poverty for visitors. A similar tour runs in Delhi's Sanjay Colony.

Founded in 2005 by Krishna Pujari and Chris Way, the company channels 80 per cent of its post-tax profit into its sister NGO, Reality Gives, which runs education and community programmes in the neighbourhoods the tours visit. Guides are drawn from the communities they walk guests through. Visitors typically leave having seen the scale and organisation of Dharavi's informal economy first-hand, and understanding exactly where their tour fee goes afterwards.