Sentences with phrase «urban slum communities»

«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.

«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.

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

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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.

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.

Inclusion criteria: «all pregnant women aged between 12 to 49 years old, who are residents of community units in Korogocho and Viwandani slums that fall within the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) area, and their respective children (when born)».

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.

While some of these programs can be said to be effective in raising awareness on global education, however records shows that most of these programs focus more on literate youths in urban rich communities, leaving many illiterate youths especially in rural and urban slums with little or no access to such programs.

An education development organization founded in 2008 that focuses on transforming communities through education and opportunity, the Dignitas Project — unlike many non-government organizations (NGOs)-- does not approach urban slums as dense concentrations of human need where charitable work in «emergency mode» or through traditional methods will have a desirable effect.