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Diogo Pires Fire: Intense Blaze Roars Through Slum In Sao Paulo, Brazil

AP | Posted 10.11.2009 | Home

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SAO PAULO — An intense fire broke out Sunday in a slum in South America's largest city, sending residents running across rooftops to escape the ...

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Moving Day in Mathare Valley

Jacqueline Novogratz | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Read More: Jamii Bora, Poverty, Acumen Fund, Mathare Valley, Kenya, Nairobi, Mathare-Valley-Slum, Mathare-Valley, Political Humor, Kaputei, Mathare Valley Slum, Slum, Nairobi-Kenya, World News
Jacqueline Novogratz

I came to Mathare Valley to see if I could better understand the trajectory of people moving from this desperate slum to Jamii Bora's development of $4,000 houses in Kaputei.

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India, Katrina, and the Bailout: How Poor People Everywhere Are Being Neglected

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Poverty, Wall Street, Bailout, Slums, Katrina, Mumbai Attacks, Prisons, India, Poor, Mumbai, Slum, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

Before, during, and after a serious terrorist attack, poor people endure retched conditions. US prisoners and Indian slum residents both share 59 square feet of living space.

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