I saw early on how a small but determined group of women can change the course of their families’ futures. That was when I ...

Rents skyrocket in Abuja due inflation, housing crunch Many residents forced to move to slums to cut costs Influx drives out poorest residents, fuels overcrowding ABUJA, Nov 28 (Thomson Reuters ...

Every month, Jenifer Wangari (not her real name) has to choose between purchasing food and taking her three children to school. She stays in Kibera, one of the poorest slums in Nairobi. She and her ...

MEDELLIN, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On the upper reaches of one of Medellin's poorest hillside slums overlooking a warren of tin-roofed shacks, scores of residents lug wheelbarrows and ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. There is a major disparity of wealth in the world’s ...

American entrepreneur and business owner Robert Kiyosaki said in an interview, "America is going to be the poorest country in the world, starting now." Kiyosaki, known for his book "Rich Dad Poor Dad, ...

Most of us couldn’t hang with William T. Vollmann’s approach to tourism. The man lingers in the poorest slums of the world’s poorest nations until he’s sampled that region’s most devastating drugs, ...

These three articles by Californian Marxist Mike Davis deal with the respective situations of the world’s richest and poorest people. For two billion of the poorest there is life in the mega-slums and ...

The students hope to turn their coursework into a business that would improve water quality and access in Mumbai slums. The class is over, but the work is just beginning for the University team ...