Sentences with phrase «into urban slums»
A report by India's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research shows that e-waste heading into India is increasing by 10 % a year, with nearly all of it heading into urban slums for disassembly - which means a huge amount of toxins hitting a huge number of people.
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The Social Gospel rose out of the excesses of the Gilded Age in the 1880s, when urban poverty spread across America as immigrants crammed into filthy slums to work long hours in unsafe conditions.
When these are neglected and money is pumped instead into industrial development, the males move to the cities, destroying the communities which have sustained the people for thousands of years and creating huge urban slums.
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.
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.