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Slum Tourism: Learning or Leering

Patrick McGinnis | Posted 10.07.2011

Read More: Slum-Tourism, Reality Tourism, India, Mumbai, Dharavi, Slumdog Millionaire, Slum, Bombay, Travel Blogs, Mumbai Travel, India Travel, Destinations, Travel News
Patrick McGinnis

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that the impetus for my visit was the film Slumdog Millionaire.

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In African Slum, Dreaming About Things So Close, Yet So Far

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lack of Sanitation, Poverty, Africa, Unsafe Water, Kibera, Knight Center for International Media, 1h20.Org, Nairobi, University of Miami, Slum, Kenya, World News
Joseph B. Treaster

Being poor and young in Africa does not mean that you cannot dream.

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Walking the Slum Side of Bangalore (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brinda Adige, India, Bangalore, Social Entrepreneurship, Activism, Radio, Community, Development, Christopher Lydon, Brown University, Domestic Violence, Slum, Human Trafficking, World News
Christopher Lydon

BANGALORE -- Brinda Adige, a self-starting social activist, in yellow sari, is our guide to the slum side of Bangalore and the virtual canyon betw...

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Finding Parallels Between New York City and Mokattam, a Garbage Village in Cairo

Diana Mao | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Justice, Environmental Justice, Trash Disposal, Cairo, Egypt, Slums, Waste Management, Robot-Trash-Collector, Waste, Environment, Environmentalism, New York City-New York, Slum, Garbage, New York City, World News
Diana Mao

My experience has shown to me that even in a developed region like New York City, you will find traces of extreme economic inequality, just like in Cairo.

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Education Innovation in the Slums

Huffington Post | Lance Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charles Leadbeater, Innovation, Education, Developing Countries, Children, Slum, Computers, Video, Technology News

"You have to engage people before you start to teach them," says British author Charles Leadbeater. The video below is a 20-minute speech discus...

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In an African Slum, Clean Drinking Water Gets Low Priority

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Africa, Kibera, Dr. Linda K. Ethangatta, United Nations, East Africa, Malnutrition, Diarrhea Outbreaks, Nairobi, Dolith Okello, Slum, Sanitation, Dr. Onesmo K. Ole-MoiYoi, Joyce Omune, Harvard University, Diarrhea, Water, Contaminated Water, Purification Tablets, Water and Disease, Drinking Water, Health Problems, Kenya, Green News
Joseph B. Treaster

In Kibera, Kenya, the government clinic gets a shipment of water purification tablets every three or four months. In a week or two the tablets are gone.

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Brazil: Intense Blaze Burns Sao Paulo Slum

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brazil, Diogo Pires, Sao Paulo, South America, Slum, Diogo Pires Fire, Poverty, Shantytown, Home News

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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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