Rising above the muck

The residents of an unauthorised colony in Delhi battle all odds for a cleaner life

Transforming a Karachi slum into a tidy suburb

The success of various programmes initiated under a pilot project in Orangi, a Karachi slum, has inspired its leader to predict the squatter …

Former slum now has its own newspaper

A determined group of youngsters in Shaheed Nagar who started a weekly newspaper find their objectives are slowly being realised.

JOHANNESBURG

Helping slum-dwellers to help themselves

Involving the community in slum improvement has worked successfully in the Philippines and Mexico. Hidebound bureaucrats in the Third World, who …

2010 World Cup revamp: squatters evicted from Jo'burg