It was a day of gratitude and appreciation, as happy slum dwellers filled the hall of the Nigeria Stored Product Research Institute (NSPRI) Lagos, on Monday April 3. From far and wide, ecstatic slum ...

Millions of people in Lagos live in slums. Slums typically have poor housing infrastructure and sanitation, and limited access to education, health facilities and clean drinking water. These ...

A recent report shed light on the social ills that face women living in slums. The magnitude of the poor living standards that characterise informal settlements and slums in Nairobi is overwhelming.

Today, over half of the world’s population lives in urban areas and it is projected that, by 2050, two out of three people will live in a city. This increased rural–urban migration, coupled with ...

Housing for economically vulnerable citizens accounts for half the land unlocked, influencing the narrative of the city’s ...

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said on Sunday that her government will ensure proper rehabilitation of eligible slum dwellers displaced due to development projects or other legitimate reasons, so ...

The Directorate General of Basic Education Community Schools (BECS), under the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the United Nations prepares a 20-year plan to cope with the challenges of booming urbanization, residents of the world's five biggest slums are battling to ...

Safe drinking water for residents of Chattogram Metropolitan area, Bangladesh’s second largest city. Water supply rose by 20 times to 3.60 billion liters a day in last decade; 40 common water taps for ...

Nagpur: We may not have big budgets, but our happiness knows no bounds, says a smiling Pihu Baksariya, as she carefully ...