slum

The slum in early spring nighttime, the sky is a balloon, a few slogans on the wall, an one female of male is turning on a light.

The narrowness of the way into the slum made it hard for the fire brigade to douse the flames, not that Nairobi has much of a fire brigade.

The businessmen who pour in on the thrice-weekly jumbo jet from Johannesburg drive out of the airport car park straight into a slum.

What good can it do, sceptics ask, to parachute a slum kid into a glamorous world of air travel and swish hotels, just for a week?

The obvious assumption was that this was some kind of subterranean slum.

It turned out to be a wave of slum dwellers streaming to the air and sea port to greet the American guests.

In one shack, deep inside the labyrinthine slum, her team found a weeping child whose parents had left her at home alone while they worked.

But, she added, even after she had a classroom, she had no idea what might come of her effort to teach kids from the slum.

He suggested that I wrote an article on Chicago's vilest slum, and this was as good as meat and drink for me.

It must have been a shock for the newcomers; this time around, Chid and Adam had hired the entire group from the slum of West Point.

My mother, the former Angela Sheehan, grew up in a Limerick slum with her mother, two brothers, Thomas and Patrick, and a sister, Agnes.

He lived in a slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and was nursed by his mother.

And most importantly, the road can be used for transporting clean water and sanitation supplies even deeper into the slum.

Am I supposed to be impressed that such a person emulates the attitude of a supposed slum resident?

It has been two days since the latest slum eradication, but families are still eking out a living amid the ruins.

But the absolute number of slum dwellers around the world, estimated to be some 830m, is still rising.

We were in the heart of West Point, the slum of Monrovia, Liberia, and arguably the densest slum in all of West Africa.

"Slumdog Millionaire" was the big winner at the Oscars, but following the ceremony, Ali and her fellow child stars returned to slum life.

He gazed recently at the 11-story structure, in a slum that has begun to take on the trappings of a lower-middle-class district.

We spent the time talking, watching DVD's (Slum Dog Millionaire), cleaning up her yard a bit, and looking through the old photo albums.

The money will be use to educate five thousand slum children over the next five years.

I had an office in those days which bordered a slum, an urban slum , so there was a dividing wall between our office and the urban slum .

In a slum outside the grand old city of Lahore, a woman named Saima Muhammad used to dissolve into tears every evening.

Sheikh Hafizuddin, 38, lives in a slum with a few hundred other migrants less than two miles from Cyber City.

One critic of the film said it was " inconceivable" that a tea- boy from the slum would be allowed on to a television quiz show .

At least 120 Kenyans have been killed in a fire at a fuel pipeline in a Nairobi slum.

Diadema's transformation from dangerous slum to stable working-class neighbourhood is part of a broader change in Latin American cities.

The peasant family is cramped tightly into a small makeshift shack in a favela, or squatter slum.

Whether or not the government wins its war against slum development, the days when urbanization was a boost to economic growth are gone.

I spent a few days on this trip visiting the Kibera Slum, the largest slum in Africa.

As he belted a ball around the slum streets of Lisbon, the young Nani fantasised about being Luis Figo.

But as the smog fell on their slum in the afternoon of the next day two more bodies were found.

City officials describe the neighborhood as an urban corner (translation: slum); residents see it as a reliable, low-rent area.

After daybreak, the rumor of a tap with running water sent her stumbling in a panic through the slum's narrow corridors.

Ugly aliens invade South Africa and are herded into a slum near Johannesburg, to the disgust of local residents.

Poverty is what I'm writing about and I had my first contact with poverty in this slum.

Down at the east end of the slum, however, a noisy crowd had gathered on a rubbish dump : the girls were holding a meeting.

against the poet's insinuating manner, and Mr. Slum entered the order in a small note-book as a three-anD-sixpenny one.

This definition seeks to target slum-dwellers face the physical and legal issues in a more accurate positioning improvement program.

I basically embedded a computer into a wall of a slum in New Delhi.

For hours afterwards, the sea was strewn with bits of wood for miles around -- all of this was from the houses in the slum.

Put one in every favela, every slum settlement, because you know what, innovation will happen.

To the slum-dwellers of Kibera or Dharavi, all this may seem distant, indeed far-fetched.

Conflicts have increased the number of slum-dwellers by at least 10% in Central African Republic and Cote d'Ivoire.

And more to do for the worker far from home in a city slum, watching jobs and remittances disappear amid global recession.

We also visited inhabitants of urban slum areas, where we planned to build simple public toilets to help improve local sanitary conditions.

Bombay is now Mumbai but the slum, with jets screaming overhead, is still there.

Plot: It is 1888 in London, and the unfortunate poor lead horrifying lives in the city's deadliest slum, Whitechapel.

A movement of socially conscious architects is emerging around the globe with novel ideas for solving the slum problem.

Police placed netting over a stream running through the slum to stop the bodies being washed away.

The underprivileged child from the crowded slum tenement has many more problems to overcome than the child from the middle-class home.

And in a crowded slum of Cite Soleil, a doctor working there has told the BBC she, too, is seeing patients with all the symptoms of cholera.

The slum built on the railroad reservation between the sea and the railroad tracks was completely swept away.

Among the herculean tasks confronting large cities are slum clearance and traffic control.

By the time Barack visited Kenya in 2006 as a senator, George was living in Huruma, a tough Nairobi slum, and training to become a mechanic.

They are living in a run-down little place in a slum area.

The Rashad psychiatric hospital lies at the very end of the sprawling Shiite slum of Sadr City.

THE Korogocho slum is one of the poorest in Nairobi, Kenya's teeming capital.

Most of these nearly 3 million people are in vulnerable and marginalized groups, including slum dwellers, migrant workers and drug users.

Himanshu Parikh Consulting Engineers won for a sanitation project called Slum Networking.

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . Whitney M.

Poverty, illiteracy , repression, exploitation, crime and unemployment are all intertwined into everyday slum life.

A woman passes by a police operation in Petare, a slum in Caracas, Venezuela.

Why does one man have a beautiful, luxurious home while another man lives out a meager existence in a slum?

Means demolish. Demolish the slum, demolish all the old things, demolish your clothes, your bags, your shoes, even yourself.

Other schemes involve a donor accepting the responsibility of upgrading a slum in return for a sovereign debt.

Shiites who fled sectarian violence near their villages have found safety and shelter in a garbage-strewn slum north of Baghdad.

but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do.

XX to us as some of the picture postcard: a red eyes disabled beggars, slum blocks water side of the child.

Four decades ago, the Nairobi slum of Kibera, barely two kilometres (a mile) from the leafy charm of the city centre, hardly existed.

In many respects it is a stark and difficult an existence as that of the people in that Latin American slum across the ocean.

Bodies lay in smouldering piles in the Sinai slum, not far from Nairobi's city centre after a petrol pipeline exploded.

In Dharavi, a slum outside Mumbai, an illiterate mother called Aruna sits in her tiny one-room flat, which is home to ten people.

Over the years, drug traffickers and other criminal gangs as a base for the slum and disrupt law and order.

Here's an example of that in this video about slum conditions in Ahmedabad, another major city of India.

Slum sex is a matter of survival for orphans and single mothers; intercourse often goes for less than $1.

Many traditionally white estates, such as Castle Vale, are out-of-town settlements built to cope with slum clearances after the war.

In the middle of the century Saffron Hill was a squalid slum overrun by paupers and thieves.

The police who patrolled the big city slum area that summer were sitting on a volcano.

In Dharavi, a Mumbai slum with perhaps 1m inhabitants, many alleys are too narrow to turn a wheelbarrow around.

Slum tourism is a one-way street: They get photos; we lose a piece of our dignity.

This week police raided a Nairobi slum and shot dead at least 22 suspects.

Now he earns a base salary of $90 a month as a door-to-door salesman and lives in a tiny, dingy room in a Xian slum.

Police in Brazil moved into Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro's biggest favela (slum), regaining control of the area from drug gangs.

Mrs Hiyale lives hand to mouth, subsisting in a slum on 100 rupees a day with the help of a local charity.

Larousse Dorcent runs a small grocery store from a shipping container in a dusty slum above the Haitian port city of Saint Marc.

The girl in the picture is queuing for free rice porridge distributed by student volunteers as part of a feeding programme in a Manila slum.

This compound is starting to feel and look like a slum.

Solid rubbish is also bad for you when you literally live on top of it, as do the people of Korogocho, a Nairobi slum.

EL ALTO, the de facto capital of Bolivia's indigenous Indians, is a massive, poor semi-slum constructed from charmless cinder bricks.

Except for The Slum Millionare, which film is the big winner of this year's Oscar?

New Delhi, India: A street artist dressed as a monkey, performs in a slum area.

Children play in a pool at the house of an alleged drug trafficker at the Complexo do Alemao slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

KEEPING WARM: Slum children kept themselves near bonfires amid heavy cold weather in the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar on Tuesday.

It was a story about slum life in Chicago.

What do you think can be done to improve the conditions of slum children? Balram Adiga, SINGAPORE.

I learned that men from the adjoining slum had formerly broken into the orphanage and sexually assaulted a four-year-old girl.

We advocate that slum-dwellers are citizens, and should be properly integrated into city planning.

One notorious and impoverished slum in northern Haiti languished with no public or private assistance.

The bodies of 56 other children remained buried under a three-storey section of the collapsed orphanage in the Carrefour slum area.

This place is no better than slum.

Slum tourism turns poverty into entertainment, something that can be momentarily experienced and then escaped from.

Fred's heart went out to the poor children playing in the slum street.

The buildings in the slum tend to be overcrowded, inadequately served by tap water and at risk from fire.

Rwandan - - duty: None. From the slum, poor family, poor learning, character closed, barbaric act of violence.

Taking property to eliminate nuisance , slum, or blight conditions prohibited .

His landlord runs a power line into the slum for electricity and draws water from a borehole on the property.

In Dharavi the slum performs not only a lot of services for itself, but it performs services for the city at large.

I grow up in a slum.

The slum ghettos have been on pulled down to make way for new housing developments.

In the third part of our series on Vietnam, we switch the focus to a slum area of Ho Chi Minh City.

its surroundings were a slum of sweat shops, metal bashing and poverty.

China and India have together lifted 125m people out of slum conditions in recent years.

Even the slum portions of cities are growing at the present time, though governments try desperately to find jobs for slum dwellers.

fearful slum conditions; a frightful mistake; suffered terrible thirst.

Foggartism having met with high disfavor and unpopularity, Michael became interested in slum improvement.

In Zimbabwe, economic collapse and the forced relocation of urban dwellers have lifted the urban slum population.

She pointed out that the slum, the average family has five members, usually more humble families huddled together in the house.

Then you wonder why where you live is always a ghetto or a slum area.

You original old style, all has not changed. I come Taibei am cooperate for and you open a slum joint.

Clinton accused Obama of having worked for a Chicago slum lord.

If food prices are not brought down fast and then kept down, slum children will go hungry, and their future lives will be impaired.

With the combined efforts of Indonesian government, local army, and Tzu Chi, 160 new houses are completed for former slum residents.

Soldiers aim their weapons during an operation against drug traffickers at the Complexo do Alemao slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Except for some rather tame scenes in the slum, the scenery of the city is unequalled.

In this Kenyan slum, his photographs were printed on waterproof vinyl and doubled up as makeshift roofs.

His band of missionaries rented a house in Recife that was next to a slum and started trying to convert the people who lived there.

Any jump in the price of basic ingredients for villagers or slum dwellers can trigger widespread distress and even rioting.

The revamp will "definitely help my business, " said one garment exporter who works and lives in the slum.

Their frustration was their village. It was becoming an urban slum.

The picture shows in the police station near the Siliguri slums. A policeman was telling stories to children of slum.

A young girl walks through Mumbai's Dharavi slum, home to about a million people.

yes sir , only a slum dweller knows another slum dweller.

"Cop a" slum in Rio have been perfect for the interpretation.

Above, a young girl drinks water from a hand pump in an Islamabad slum on March 22.

The grave of Mr Godwin's elder sister, shot dead in the independence war, becomes a slum-dwellers ' toilet.

No one wants to carry around extra pounds, but few people know how to slum down effectively.

In a nearby slum a teenage boy was recently beaten to death for cutting in line.

Homeless for years, now living in a Nairobi slum, George is working to become a car mechanic.

In the Balveer Nagar slum, 250 families have no supply at all.

That used to be our slum.

Daytime any Jew leaves the slum area to take to bring with indicated certainly that they are "the Jew" the status red cap.

Why not cure unemployment by a National Slum clearance effort?

Once again Shia slum-dwellers in Baghdad and the south voted in numbers for Muqtada al-Sadr, a populist cleric.

District 13 is a walled -off slum, a hive of crime that the police have given up on.

Many slum located in the hilltop, overlooking the beautiful beach and downtown.

Manokaa Ali, 10, studies at a local school in a slum in Lalbag, Dhaka city, Bangladesh, where gender equality has improved significantly.

The new mayor earned some appreciation by the courtesy of coming to slum area.

The Warrens in the eastern part of town is a terrible slum sick with poverty and crime.

The biggest winner of all at the 2009 Oscars was Slumdog Millionaire, a movie about a slum dweller winning a game show in India.

Besides the slum is regarded as a social problem of Hispanic unemployment, drop-out or black youth.

Factors of naturalism in the novel are mainly manifested in two aspects: slum environment and ethic value of people in slum.

And meanwhile, he's living in Tangjialing, a reeking slum on the city's edge where he and his girlfriend rent an apartment for $90 a month.

Children of slum dwellers play under a pushcart in New Delhi, India.

Slum tourism has its advocates, who say it promotes social awareness. And it's good money, which helps the local economy.

He connects easily with black slum -dwellers and white tycoons alike.

A view of a slum neighborhood along the railroad tracks in Hanoi, Vietnam, Jan.

If sold land under the own foot, the slum people can get a lot of money income.

A virulent "sons of soil" party in Mumbai has been roughing up slum residents to force them to return home.

Slum residents will not be compensated because the homes were built illegally.

Here a girl washes her muddied sandals along a dirty water canal in the Nairobi slum of Kibera on March 21.

This unit seeks to transform the way in which the water utility views slum dwellers and works with them.

Cities should not turn a "blind eye" to slum-dwellers or evict them, Akporji adds.

On the streets of Khlong Toey, the largest slum in Bangkok, there is nostalgia for Mr Thaksin's iron-fisted drugs policy.

There are thousands of children In the slum needIng feedIng up.

redevelop a city centre, housing estate, slum area, etc, eg.

I am living close to what many people would call a slum in Shanghai, and loving it.

slum bring her up against the reality of poverty.

In this photo, a man shoots heroin in front of children in Ferentari, an impoverished Roma slum.

And always it is the urban poor, especially slum dwellers, who are most at risk when disaster strikes.

Those college girls go slum and come home with sex disease.

But the actual number of slum dwellers rose by more than 50m.

He introduced a project for slum clearance.

Eighty percent of Mumbai's plastic gets reborn in the slum.

A month ago I visited Kibera, the largest slum in Africa.

The slum area was sordid and filthy beyond belief.

a slummy part of town; slum conditions.

Many coloured people live in the slum near the Main Street.

When it is practised in dealing with the slum, there will shortly be no slum.

They've demolished the slum district.

Many cities have slum areas or ghettoes, where people live in dangers or destitute conditions.

Conditions in the slum worsened.

They have demolished the slum district.

An opposition supporter runs with empty canisters to bring water to extinguish a burning house in Nairobi's Kibera slum January 29, 2008.

And you go to a nice dense place like this slum in Mumbai.

The edge of the slum district.

These children came from a slum area.

Youths celebrate New Year's Day with fire crackers in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya January 1, 2010.

New York is both the biggest city of industry and commerce and the city with the largest area of slum in America.

He was born in the slum but ended up with honor.

And they need to overcome the obstacle that most slum-dwellers have weak or non-existent property rights.

I kind of liked watching you slum it.

It's barely played in any more, and isn't much use to the surrounding slum-dwellers.

Giving a London slum dweller a house with light and air and a modicum of sanitation increased utility.

Slum tourism is taking off in Kenya.

I can taste the bitter of living in the slum.

Adouble-snub for this raw slum classic.

This is a local slum, outside expertise are sold to poor offal, look very dirty.

She says one slum inNairbiNairobi, Mathari, has only about 3 public shools primary schools nearby.

The slum dwellers were not reincarnation of evil and were different from the people who accroached land.

The bar in the slum is a den of iniquity.

Behind Society slum-bered the Law.

We studied 132 children without head lice who lived in a slum in north-eastern Brazil.

After paying $40 to rent a small room in a slum, the 45-year-old can barely manage to buy enough food for the house.

Her report on the asylum, and later reports on slum life, inspired people to change these conditions.

The picture shows a slum in Dharavi, Bombay. A mother is putting her daughter's clothes on.

The Dharavi slum in Mumbai, India, at twilight on October 9, 2011.

Usually poor people live in slum district.

But side by side you have Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia.

I went to the biggest slum in India. That was a real eye-opener , really.

Pick up the lessons from the property slum in Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore to really understand about capital appreciation.

The picture shows the slum people together, watch 81st Academy Awards.

"I wonder, " Winsett broke off, "how a Countess happens to live in our slum? "

He can hit the jumper, shoot the lay-up , slum dunk and assisant his teammates easily.

What a wretched existence the people in the slum lead !

Ask African slum-dwellers how to end poverty and you often get the pragmatic answer: "Give me a job" .

Take El Valle, a hillside slum on the edge of Caracas, for example.

When Sister Teresa first came to India, she taught slum children in Calcutta whose parents were too poor to send them to school.

he had a jaundiced attitude towards all proposals for slum clearance that differed in the slightest from his own

Nairobi, Kenya: A boy juggles the ball during football practice at a community field in the Mathare slum

the plan for slum clearance had to be scrapped for lack of funds but it is hoped the new government still restore the necessary funds

The mayor, incensed over the filthy condition of the hallways of the slum building he was inspecting, ordered an immediate investigation

The last time England saw such serious riots, in 1981, much of Notting Hill was a tough place, still blighted by slum housing;

brought up in a slum

Manila, Philippines: Filipino children swim in a road construction site in the Tondo slum area

Mandaluyong, Philippines: People salvage materials from a burnt down residential slum area

Power and Utterance: Introspection of the Slum Dwellers'Historical Status in Qing Dynasty

If the Government refuses to appropriate funds, the slum-clearanceprograms might be terminated

a strong bias in slum areas against policemen

Grow up in a slum

Application of Concrete Blocks in Slum Districts Reconstruction Projects in Benxi City

The city council considered framing new ordinances to ameliorate theunsanitary conditions in slum areas

urban renewal, slum clearance, and redevelopment

Advisory Group on Improvement of Slum and Squatter Settlements;

desert , downtown , and crowded slum areas. They share one thing in common :

reconstruction of slum area will benefit liaoning people

frail hopes long ago shattered by the brutal facts of slum life

slum children already sunk in apathetic despair

Towards a pro-poor framework for slum upgrading in Mumbai, India

Solar-powered lights bring night football to slum

Slum clearance, IE knocking down of slum houses

the teeming population of the slum

Slum dog Millionaire Movie Review

If Eldorado's slum children today eat better

Slum Cities and Cities with Slums

Slum area where vagrants live

Tabitha, a 44-year-old woman from a slum outside Nairobi

The Battle with the Slum