COLONIE — The poor, desperate children who live on the streets in the slums of Kampala, Uganda, call Diane Reiner "jajja." It's slang for grandmother, or a loving maternal presence. Advertisement ...
*NAIROBI, Kenya — Nairobi’s urban slums have become the breeding grounds for well-off street gangs. Violent robbery has long been associated with young men from impoverished backgrounds. The trend, ...
It’s a regular Monday morning in one of Delhi’s city slums and 14-year-old Chandni is getting ready to face the day ahead. Just as she’s about to step out, a frantic voice calls out her name – it’s a ...
NAIROBI, Kenya — The three-person crew of Slum TV set out under the hot noon sun, slinging a video camera and microphone through the crooked labyrinth of iron-sided shacks, graffitied beer joints, ...
Somad rarely ventures beyond his impoverished Jakarta neighbourhood, but the 14-year-old is now gearing for a trip to Russia next month as a player in the 2018 Street Child World Cup. It's the journey ...
Close to 120 years have passed since Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. Using stereoscopic camera, magnesium flash powder, and riveting language, ...
MUMBAI—In this land-starved financial capital of India, where millions live in slums, a developer late last year started razing two-story brick shanties and tin-shelters near Dhobi Ghat, the world’s ...