Sentences with phrase «in urban slums»

For the past few years I have lived in an urban slum community on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia.

Forever Kids Kenya is a registered Swiss non-profit organization with the aim of promoting quality basic education among underprivileged kids in urban slums of Kenya.

«Zika is just another example of how populations that reside in these urban slum communities are ignored, neglected and invisible,» said study author Lee Riley, a professor in the Berkeley School of Public Health, who has spent nearly 25 years studying urban slums in Brazil.

«If the public - health community had looked at the examples of previous epidemics, maybe we could have invested more effort in helping the people in urban slums who are actually being affected by Zika,» Snyder said.

And if we compare the condition of the poor in urban slums with that of the poor on subsistence farms, my own judgment is that there is more loss than gain.

All of what I envision — the shiny classrooms, piles of books, and endless snack supply — lies in stark contrast to what I'm seeing on the ground in Ethiopia, whether at traditional schools or at the Population Council's safe learning spaces for girls suffering in urban slums.

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.

Snyder, Riley and study co-author Claire Boone each spent time in Brazil, studying infectious diseases that predominate in urban slums.

«Seven months after Rio Olympics, Zika continues to plague babies in urban slums.»

After briefly landing in urban slums like the Kibera district in Nairobi, Kenya, their sights may have turned to higher - income countries like the United States.

Effect of routine zinc supplementation on pneumonia in children aged 6 months to 3 years: randomised controlled trial in an urban slum.

Osendarp, S. J., Santosham, M., Black, R. E., Wahed, M. A., van Raaij, J. M., and Fuchs, G. J. Effect of zinc supplementation between 1 and 6 mo of life on growth and morbidity of Bangladeshi infants in urban slums.

Paradigm Initiative Nigeria is an organization in Lagos, Nigeria that is located in the urban slum of Ajegunle and works to equip young people with skills, and knowledge that they need to be global citizens, they do this through various skills training, lectures, exchange programs, and community service work.

«What we want to do for children is give them confidence that they use to handle life,» explains Umesh, who rejects the textbook - heavy, teacher - centered method in place at so many overcrowded schools in urban slums and remote villages (here and in the United States).

Annan's pictures constitute one of the first commissioned photographic records of living conditions in urban slums.

The 2013 Hult Prize, which kicks off the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting for heads of state and leaders of businesses and nonprofits, will award $ 1 million to the sole startup idea that best secures food for undernourished communities — particularly for the 200 million people who live in urban slums.

Often the village disappears, to be replaced by inferior communities in urban slums.

«What happened with Zika is just like what happened with the spread of Ebola; nobody said a word about it in urban slums.»

In urban slums, enhancing family hygiene can prevent about half of childhood diarrhea and respiratory illnesses, including pneumonia, researchers working in Pakistan report.

-- Increasing vulnerability for those living in urban slums and where shelter and human settlements are poor

Business - as - usual solutions are not working to deliver energy access to women and the most vulnerable and hardest - to - reach people, particularly those living in urban slums and rural parts of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia Pacific.