Sentences with phrase «urban slums of»

www.foreverkidskenya.com 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.

In Kenya we conducted our censuses in three urban slums of Nairobi (Kibera, Mukuru, and Kawangware), where, according to Kenyan government officials, there were no private schools.

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.

Not exact matches

«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.

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.

Gianna Fair Trade Gianna Driver, 28 San Francisco Sells fashion and home accessories made by a worldwide network of women living in urban slums and impoverished villages.

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.

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

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.

It is not surprising that the slums in our cities, where there is an intense struggle for basic necessities, have become scenes of violent conflict, M.N. Srinivas, the eminent sociologist, observes «The richest soil for communal frenzy to build on is poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and slum — like conditions — all of which are m plenty in urban India» (India Today, January 16 - 31, 1993).

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.

Small rural towns have been decimated, while the population of urban slums and sprawling suburbs has greatly increased.

The steam engine led to oppression for miners and other workers, the spread of vast urban slums, and a ruthless stranglehold by capitalistic investors on the wage earner.24 In the twentieth century, the effects of the automobile have been similarly far - reaching and ambivalent.

Seeing an urban slum, being exposed to the vice, crime, disease, and poverty of the city, becoming aware of the plight of an underpaid or unemployed worker, the wideawake minister felt that something was wrong and expressed his feeling in moral protest.

Too often relegated to urban slums, the projects have suffered from a concentration of extremely poor families and a disproportionate level of black occupancy.

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.

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)».

Though Jurczynski's urban experience may go underutilized, he'll no doubt do his personal best to help HUD achieve its stated Small Cities national objective of «aiding in the prevention of slums and blight.»

«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.

Since 2007 nonprofit CHF International has been mapping urban poverty in areas of India and Africa through a program called Slum Communities Achieving Livable Environments with Urban Partners (SCALE - UP)(urban poverty in areas of India and Africa through a program called Slum Communities Achieving Livable Environments with Urban Partners (SCALE - UP)(Urban Partners (SCALE - UP)(pdf).

Predictive models suggest the ongoing Zika epidemic may run out of steam after two or three more seasons, but these models do not consider how urban slums and their highly mobile populations affect the disease's dynamics, according to the study.

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

«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.

Both during the games and today, mothers living in Rio's sprawling urban slums give birth weekly to microcephalic babies (children born with abnormally small heads and a range of other complications).

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

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

I've seen Otto create a shoe business that makes your favorite flats — and also employs guys looking to transition out of the gangs in the largest urban slum in Central America.

With an urban - slum setting similar to Danny Boyle's Oscar - winning phenomenon Slumdog Millionaire, only without any feel - good carrot at the end of the string, Pedro Costa's three - hour drama In Vanda's Room paints a realist picture of the more

With an urban - slum setting similar to Danny Boyle's Oscar - winning phenomenon Slumdog Millionaire, only without any feel - good carrot at the end of the string, Pedro Costa's three - hour drama In Vanda's Room paints a realist picture of the

Dredd, played in the film by Karl Urban, teams up with psychic and rookie Judge Cassandra Anderson, played by Olivia Thirlby, to take on a drug - ring operating out of a 200 - story slum.

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.

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.

With these new shopping malls, young people in Hasköy, who, thanks to the media, could envision how the middle class regarded them, that is those living in the «slums,» suddenly had to battle the ostracizing, discriminatory, degrading gaze of the middle class [14] not just in middle class urban spaces, but also in their own neighborhood.

From a wide range of settings, from deepest rural China, through the slums of urban India and Kenya, to the urban periphery areas o Ghana, private education is serving huge numbers of children.

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.

More importantly see that many of the unreached young people in rural and urban slums are provided with same opportunities as their peers.

It is important that organizations focus some of their resources in developing programs that will benefit poor illiterate youth population in rural and urban slums.

Outside the walls of this state - of - the - art, pre-K-12 international school, you find contrasts at every corner: urban slums near posh shopping malls, rickshaws sharing the roads with limousines.

Dignified, adequate infrastructure and services should be prioritized for rural areas and poor parts of urban areas; the parasitic exploitation of villages by cities should be eliminated through measures for maximum urban self - sufficiency and sustainability; public transportation, walking and bicycling needs to be prioritized over private motorized transportation; adequate shelter / housing with land rights should be a high priority for urban slums.

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.

According to the UN, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums dropped 10 % to 37 % in the 15 years leading up to 2005.

I recently had the opportunity to learn more about this remarkable young woman, who went on to transform Africa's largest urban slum and change the lives of many of its residents.

A fundamental part of the artist's practice is influenced by the collaborative building process undertaken by dwellers of improvised urban settlements around the world — favelas, barrios, slums, or shanti towns — who rely on recycled and scavenged materials to ingeniously, but often precariously, respond to their rapidly changing living situations.

Guest contribution from Nairobi, Kenya by Joel Lukhovi Kibera, one of Nairobi's largest slums, and the second largest urban slum continentally, experienced some of the worst violence during Kenya's post election crisis of...

Sidhi Rajesh Parikh uses slum visuals in Dharavi, India to highlight not only the design aspect of the areas but also to contain and understand the urban landscape.

Bellows's early works show the influence of Henri in their dark, tonal palette, vigorous brushwork, and urban subject matter; typical of this period is Forty - Two Kids (1907), a painting of slum children swimming and diving in the East River.

Housing developments in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, seek to erase the memory of an urban slum.