Sentences with phrase «from urban slums»

In addition to hosting our regional office in Nairobi, Planned Parenthood Global supports partners with financial and technical assistance across Kenya, from urban slums to coastal fishing villages to the bustling Nairobi cityscape.

Water samples from the urban slum were crawling with 20 times more bacteria than those from the rural site, the team reports online this week in PLoS Medicine.

Not exact matches

Too often relegated to urban slums, the projects have suffered from a concentration of extremely poor families and a disproportionate level of black occupancy.

They analyzed stool samples collected from children in the urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and determined that children with more severe infections had less diversity in their gut microbiome.

But as the world's urban population surges, and more people crowd into rat - plagued slums, the rodents are getting renewed attention from researchers and public health experts.

The researchers collected water samples from gutters, puddles, and streams in two locations: an urban slum and a rural village.

In Ghana, Acqua for Life expanded from rural communities into urban areas in 2013, installing mechanized boreholes to provide water to residents of the Aboabo slum, in Ghana's second biggest city of Kumasi.

From a wide range of settings, from deepest rural China, through the slums of urban India and Kenya, to the urban periphery areas o Ghana, private education is serving huge numbers of childFrom a wide range of settings, from deepest rural China, through the slums of urban India and Kenya, to the urban periphery areas o Ghana, private education is serving huge numbers of childfrom deepest rural China, through the slums of urban India and Kenya, to the urban periphery areas o Ghana, private education is serving huge numbers of children.

It also found out that not many young people in rural and urban slums benefit from these programs.

Guest contribution from Nairobi, Kenya by Joel Lukhovi Kibera, one of Nairobi's largest slums, and the second largest urban slum continentally, experienced some of the worst violence during Kenya's post election crisis of...

If slums are to avoided as people move from rural to urban areas much of the building will be as high rises.