Introduction Rapid urbanization in developing countries brings numerous problems and challenges; urban poverty is one major issue in developing countries like Bangladesh. 20% people of Bangladesh live in urban area. In this essay I will try to look at the sanitation problem that the slum dwellers are facing every day in the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. I will try to focus their vulnerability to economic and environmental shocks and stresses and the situations they are facing on every day basis their hardship and scarcity. Dhaka is one of the biggest megacities in the world. Every day thousands of people are coming in search of their better livelihood. The unplanned urbanization in Dhak city makes them vulnerable to many way. They are at risk of nutration, ill health, financial, illiteracy, corruption, environmental and so on. slum population in Dhaka city is around 850 household. “Almost half the world, over 3 billion people, lives on less than $2.50 a day. The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the 41 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (567 million people) is less than the wealth of the world’s 7 richest people combined. Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen. 1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, and 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day)” - Anup Shah (Global Issues, 2009.02.20). Muhammad Yunus defines poverty as, “Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. For building stable peace we must find ways to provide