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GREDA should build for low income earners

Joy Online 20 Sep 2018

The Ministry of Works and Housing estimates the country has 2million units housing deficit ... A crisis isan event that is expected to lead to an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual, group, community or whole society. With so many people living in kiosks and slum areas one can concludethe housing sector is facing a crisis ... The U.N ... They are to create good, affordable public housing and upgrade slum settlements ... Profile ... ....

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Siddhivinayak temple to make special laddoos to battle malnutrition

Mid Day 20 Sep 2018

Senior WCD department officials said that of the 37 lakh children screened in the six months to 6 years age group, 20,903 fell under the Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) category and 33,827 were in the Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) category ... Under the SNP programme, ICDS ensures that all anganwadi serve morning snacks and hot cooked meals to children in the age group of three to six years....

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In Varanasi, PM Narendra Modi to celebrate birthday with children from slums

Hindustan Times 17 Sep 2018

For 75 child ragpickers from the slums of Varanasi it will be an unforgettable birthday party to attend Monday evening – that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ... A group of alumni of ... Komal, Saloni and Shivam are among the group of 75 ragpickers scheduled to meet Modi ... The group visits different slums a few days a week to teach the children....

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Photos: Life in Haiti's largest trash dump

Dispatch Argus 15 Sep 2018

... of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, before Aristide leaves to play soccer with a group of friends....

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Housing demand

Dawn 14 Sep 2018

PRIME MINISTER Imran Khan has created a committee to explore options for implementing his five million houses initiative — expected to benefit those without shelter, slum dwellers and other urban and rural low-income groups ... The ‘why’ and ‘how’ of housing must be carefully examined ... The House Building Finance Company must undertake innovatively designed packages to enhance clientele and expand access of housing to more needy groups ... ....

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Swachh lessons for Noida, from Indore

The Times of India 14 Sep 2018

Even slums and low income groups have learnt segregation and disposal in bins,” said Rohan Saxena, additional municipal commissioner....

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'Aarogya Sakhis' bring healthcare at doorstep in Dharavi slums

DNA India 13 Sep 2018

Women from lower income group in Dharavi slums are making a wise use of mobile technology to ensure that inexpensive and authentic medicines reach to their neighbourhood using an app-based technology ... Medicines Healthcare Lower Income Group Maharashtra Government Slum Dwellers Mobile Technology Health Camps Mahila Arthik Vikas Mahamandal Dharavi ......

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AP Photos: Haitians scour the country's largest trash dump

The Oklahoman 12 Sep 2018

29, 2018 photo, Changlair Aristide stands with his wife Violene Mareus and children outside their home near the Truitier landfill where Aristide scavenges for valuables to use or sell in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, before Aristide leaves to play soccer with a group of friends ... "We don't have a toilet here," says Rene Phanor, a slum resident who also works for a local aid organization....

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The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas review – a dazzling genre-defying debut

The Guardian 12 Sep 2018

A door bolted from the inside, blood, bullets and and unidentifiable corpse ... As the novel opens, we learn that time travel was invented in 1967 by a four-strong group known as the Pioneers. There’s aristocratic cosmologist Margaret; Lucille, who has “come from the Toxteth slums to make radio waves travel faster than light”; enigmatic Grace, “an expert in the behaviour of matter”; and Barbara, a specialist in nuclear fission ... .......

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Camdenton mission team visits Africa's second largest slum

Lake News Online 10 Sep 2018

Recently a group of five lake area residents traveled to the Mathare Slums of Nairobi, Kenya to meet with a group of 60 students they currently sponsor through secondary boarding school education scholarships ... ....

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Iraqi railway sees revival

Middle East Online 10 Sep 2018

For the last month, Captain Imed Hassun has taken pride in once again driving the route between the capital and the former Islamic State group stronghold ... While government forces expelled IS from Fallujah in 2016, the line still bears the scars of the group's two-year occupation of the city and its environs, including mines it planted along the tracks ... As each train passes, small groups of boys throw stones, chipping the windows....

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Re-opened Iraqi railway a sign of progress

This is Money 10 Sep 2018

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Feature: China-sponsored school boosts literacy among Kenyan slum children

Xinhua 07 Sep 2018

7 (Xinhua) -- Pritty Porshell is only eleven years old yet her sharp wit, confidence and ability to communicate in a coherent manner is unmatched in a China-sponsored learning facility located at the heart of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi's sprawling Mathare slums ... "Majority of our students are from Mathare slums and education is a luxury to them given the alarming levels of poverty in this informal settlement," said Nyatota....

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