Sentences with phrase «urban slums as»
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.
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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.
«There isn't a lot of granular information on poverty and slums in the cities we're working in,» says Brian English, country director of slum upgrading, urbanization and climate change initiatives in India for CHF, which was founded in 1952 as the Foundation for Cooperative Housing to provide affordable homes for low - income families in rural and urban America.
Often referred to as «slum clearing,» urban renewal programs helped developers buy up land that often housed working class families and demolish their homes to rebuild newer, more expensive developments.
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.
asks They Live in the opening scenes, as images of homeless people fill depressed urban slums and crowd around TVs to see how the rest of the country lives.
And we have Buzzfeed and Upworthy and Jezebel and Thought Catalog coursing through the veins of the Internet, providing us with endless lists about slumming it as an urban twentysomething (accompanied by Bridesmaids GIFs) and an onslaught of videos and articles that will not rest until every millennial embraces the label of feminist.
Other than its depiction of the slums of Atlanta as an urban hell, the strength of Triple 9 is its desperate Gentile characters.
Almost as soon as the city's skyscrapers disappeared over the horizon, its opera houses, universities, and urban slums seemed a world away.
More importantly see that many of the unreached young people in rural and urban slums are provided with same opportunities as their peers.
Although this resource is based within the slum or shanty settlements of Brazil, the content within it is just as applicable to any poorer urban area of low income countries.
If slums are to avoided as people move from rural to urban areas much of the building will be as high rises.
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.