Video - A fake slum was built in Davos at the gathering of the ultra rich so they could experience poverty first hand during a break from their 7-star vacation.
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- Tunde Onakoya Returns To Nigeria, Receives Heroic Welcome After Breaking Guinness World Record
Chess-in-Slums founder, Tunde Onakoya has returned to Nigeria to a hero’s welcome after breaking Guinness World Record in New York, the United States of America. Recall that on Wednesday, April 17, ...
04/23/2024 - 11:38 pm | View Link - Chess-in-slums founder, Onakoya, returns to hero’s welcome after breaking Guinness World Record
Chess-in-Slums Founder, Tunde Onakoya, who recently surpassed the world record for the longest-ever chess marathon, clocking an impressive 60 hours, received a heartwarming welcome upon his return to ...
04/23/2024 - 10:52 pm | View Link - Bhopal: Damaged Makeshift Toilets Lead To Open Defecation In City Slums
Open defecation can be seen again in city’s slum as temporary toilets are in a bad condition. Slum dwellers defecate in open as temporary ODF toilets ar ...
04/23/2024 - 7:46 pm | View Link - 8 Kids From UP Slums Excel In Board Exams Proving Every Kid Deserves A Shot At Education
In India, children living in slums often face negative assumptions about their future. People believe they won’t do well in school or in life because of their background. Living in cramped and poor ...
04/22/2024 - 12:15 am | View Link - Nigerian, American chess masters stage world-record attempt with 60-hour marathon in NYC
Nigerian chess master and chess champion Tunde Onakoya played for 60-hours in Times Square in an attempt to set the world record for marathon chess.
04/21/2024 - 12:31 pm | View Link - More
- The Global Effort to Improve the World’s Slums | Cities Alliance
Newsroom. Results. The Global Effort to Improve the World’s Slums. One billion people around the world still live in slums, but attitudes towards these informal settlements are changing. We explore the global attempts to improve and formalise them, and the barriers that make such work so difficult. This piece was first published by Geographical.
04/23/2024 - 5:02 am | View Website - Slum
A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inhabited by impoverished people. [1]
04/23/2024 - 2:10 am | View Website - The history, geography, and sociology of slums and the health problems ...
Summary. Massive slums have become major features of cities in many low-income and middle-income countries. Here, in the first in a Series of two papers, we discuss why slums are unhealthy places with especially high risks of infection and injury.
04/23/2024 - 12:23 am | View Website - Share of the urban population living in slums
Urbanization. Charts. Access to electricity, urban vs. rural. Annual growth rate of urban agglomerations with 300,00 inhabitants or more. Annual growth rate of urban population share. Do more people live in urban or rural areas? Employment in agriculture vs. urban population.
04/22/2024 - 11:11 pm | View Website - Slum | Urban Poverty, Overcrowding, Inequality | Britannica
slum, Densely populated area of substandard housing, usually in a city, characterized by unsanitary conditions and social disorganization. Rapid industrialization in 19th-century Europe was accompanied by rapid population growth and the concentration of working-class people in overcrowded, poorly built housing.
04/22/2024 - 8:20 pm | View Website - More
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