Sentences with phrase «slum communities»
"Slum communities" refers to areas where people live in poor and overcrowded conditions, often lacking basic amenities and proper infrastructure. Full definition
The researcher Y Combinator hired, Elizabeth Rhodes, just got her doctorate in social work and political science from the University of Michigan, where she studied slum communities in Nairobi, Kenya.
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For the past few years I have lived in an urban slum community on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia.
Kroo Bay, a sprawling slum community on the Atlantic coastline in the Western Area, is reported to have recorded another confirmed case.»
«By growing, processing, and selling edible insects, Aspire Food Group (The McGill Hult Team) will empower urban slum communities, offering them better access to an efficient, sustainable source of protein and nutrients,» the team says on its website.
These houses were built on top of each other, it was a slum community that was cramped,» Evans told CNBC's «The Brave Ones.»
The city of Ahmedabad, India, where about 25 percent of the residents live in slum communities, announced a heat action plan in 2017 that includes a cool roofs initiative to paint or otherwise convert at least 500 slum household roofs and to improve the reflectivity of roofs on government buildings and schools.
«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.
«Many of the artisans [they] work with live in slum communities, where their address defines who they are in greater society.
Social stigmas are intense for those who live in slum communities, and can dictate their success in life.
A short booklet of poems and stories written by young people from a slum community in the Philippines.
On our first visit to Africa, specifically in the slum communities of extreme poverty in Nairobi (Kenya), we realized the exact dimension of the global tragedy, and hence the title of «FUTURE BOTTLING».
Among the places that impacted Malani's works were the slum community near her former studio in Bandra that was leveled by the city government, and her past residence in the working - class neighborhood of Lohar Chawl.
Rio de Janeiro, for example, has taken this pledge to heart in its recently launched Municipal Resilience Plan, which includes a range of interventions to prevent severe damage from floods and landslides, improve health and livelihoods in slum communities, and set up and fund a system of data and indicators to track resilience - building over time.
That's why they developed the Lifestraw Family, a water filter system designed to filter enough water for an entire family.Fresh off the successful delivery of 75 Hippo Rollers in Africa, Project H Design and founder Emily Pilloton have set up an initiative to fund 100 Lifestraw Family systems for a slum community in Mumbai, India.