Urban poor communities are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change, but there is little to no discourse on how it seeps into their neighborhoods and daily lives. The youth living in one of the most marginalized resettlement colonies in Mumbai's Govandi, are often denied health insurance owing to high tuberculosis rates due to limited access to sunlight and open spaces in his neighborhood. This resettlement colony houses 25000 people across 61 buildings with each house being as tiny as 226 square feet. The youth here have to hide their addresses for jobs or educational opportunities to not be stigmatized as residents of Govandi. Such cases highlight the links between poor infrastructure - a key component to deteriorating climate resilience - and social cohesion, public health and identities of vulnerable communities living in rapid urbanization.

Gutter Ki Machhli (Fish from the Sewer) is an animation film that weaves together the voices of the children, youth and women of a rehabilitation and resettlement colony in Govandi, Mumbai through their drawings and poetry to vocalise, localise and visualise their experiences of climate change in their poorly built homes and neighbourhood.

This film was produced as part of the Arts4Resilience "Knowledge into Use" Awards 2023 by Global Resilience Partnership. Through this award, we conducted a series of arts based workshops using multiple mediums including drawings, photography, theatre and poetry to discuss the environmental changes and impacts the residents of Govandi are experiencing in their everyday lives. This arts based approach to the climate workshop was not only an evidence building tool, but more so an empathetic, non-extractive and participatory method to discuss issues that are otherwise too technical to understand. This film brings together these experiences to create a local vocabulary for a more inclusive discourse around environmental and climate crises.