New Delhi (CNN) — The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” ...

Explore how Bengaluru's housing policies fail the urban poor, leading to the rise and demolition of slums in the city.

Pastor John and his wife have spent the last decade working to break the cycle of spiritual and emotional poverty in a ...

Young people studying in the library in the Kibera slum, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The community ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's huge and squalid slums don't have much of anything, except mountains of trash that fill rivers and muddy streets, breeding disease. Now Kenyan designers have built a cooker ...

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