I see mostly women and teenage girls bopping in and ... I drop her off at the entrance to the slum. "Are there poor people in America?" she asks before getting out of the car.

In Russia, a poor man said, "every day I am afraid of the next." A poor woman in a favela (slum) in Brazil said, "there is no control over anything, at any hour a gun could go off, especially at night ...

“Most slum areas are polluted by waste materials that present a challenge for those living there,” said Odede. Shofco, a grassroots women and girls' movement tasked with coordinating the ...

Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)-- In the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya, some of the community's poorest women are taking part in project that is spreading the true meaning of the holiday season. In 2001 ...

Fourty-one-year-old Emily, a health co-ordinator from Montana befriended 23-year-old Devesh Chavda, who lives in an Ahmedabad slum on Facebook. Sparks flew and both of them fell in love ...

WOMAN: Eight altogether ... housing stock was often in very poor repair, had inadequate sanitation and homes were often over-crowded. As a consequence, these slums became the breeding ground ...