BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Children living in a slum in Argentina’s capital are playing cricket as part of an initiative to help them escape poverty and crime. Villa 21-24 in Buenos Aires is a ...

Edu Lyra was restless when speaking to FORBES while walking under the stifling heat of a mid-December afternoon in São Paulo. The Brazilian social entrepreneur had just returned from a week in ...

Today, Kenya joins the world in celebrating the World Habitat Day whose theme is; voices from the slums. While Kenya is ranked a middle income country, World Bank statistics show that 4 in every 10 ...

Mumbai: Children growing up in India’s urban slums are no longer battling just undernutrition. By the time they reach primary ...

The project aims to map the whole world - eventually - and become a tool for better city planning as mayors decide which areas most need sewers, roads and other basics DAKAR, Oct 23 (Thomson Reuters ...

When the Covid-19 pandemic brought life to a standstill and exposed deep-rooted inequalities across Mumbai, 51-year-old ...

NEW DELHI, India -- India's poorest souls crowd the banks of the Yamuna in an early morning mist, dumping waste, washing clothes and bathing in one of India's holiest -- and most polluted -- rivers.

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Is he a slumdog millionaire? An Australian influencer has been accused of engaging in “poverty tourism” after filming himself “surviving” in an Indian slum, as seen in a viral Instagram video. “I ...