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Virus Outbreak: People in India’s largest slum unite

Taipei Times 04 Jun 2020

Kanase and his team at Dharavi Diary, a group of young leaders who ... Each day the slum’s poorest people — often migrant workers from elsewhere in the country — line the main street waiting for food handouts from Dharavi Diary and other volunteers, groups and government agencies....

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Amid virus, those in India's largest slum help one another

Yahoo Daily News 04 Jun 2020

Kanase and his team at Dharavi Diary, a group of young leaders who work to improve conditions in the slum, have been working to help those affected by the pandemic, handing out bags of rice, flour, cooking oil and sugar — enough to feed a family for two weeks ... Each day the slum's ......

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Amid virus, those in India’s largest slum help one another

Wtop 04 Jun 2020

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Orphans in Africa keep hope alive as they ride out virus

China Daily 03 Jun 2020

According to Margret Nekesa, the founder of Smile Community Center Children's Home located in the Soweto slum of Nairobi's Kayole Township, her establishment has followed all the directives by the government in order to keep children in the institution safe from the coronavirus despite the challenges they face....

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How policing works in India in Covid-19 times

Business Line 02 Jun 2020

In Indore, police stations have spread awareness about Covid-19 through women’s volunteer groups established under URJA, a programme for women’s security (which we studied in collaboration with Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner and Sandip Sukhtankar of the University of Virginia, and with support from J-PAL)....

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COVID-19: As Maharashtra relaxes lockdown, does Mumbai have enough beds?

Mid Day 01 Jun 2020

How will they turn them into centres within one day?" said Prabhakar Shinde, group leader of BJP in the BMC ... The CZs will be residential colonies, mohalla, slum, building, group of buildings, lane, ward, police station area, villages, small cluster of villages etc ... 2) No group activity will be permitted....

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Street art offers beauty, a laugh, some hope

Napa Valley Register 31 May 2020

× ... Already a subscriber? Log in ... Members of the National Youth Service walk past an informational mural about the coronavirus with words in Swahili reading "Stop corona in the neighborhood", painted by graffiti artists from the Mathare Roots youth group, in the Mathare slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, April 30, 2020 ... ....

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India’s COVID-19 lockdown: The rich love it. For the poor it’s another story

Gulf News 31 May 2020

This lack of resources greatly complicates the challenge of helping the jobless in India, a far-flung group that is so hard to track that the government doesn’t regularly report the unemployment rate ... It is the migrants, moving in small groups, one fending off an attack by thieves from the nearby slums....

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India’s COVID-19 lockdown: The rich love it and the poor hate it

Gulf News 30 May 2020

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AP PHOTOS: Street art offers beauty, a laugh, some hope

The Bismarck Tribune 29 May 2020

Members of the National Youth Service walk past an informational mural about the coronavirus with words in Swahili reading "Stop corona in the neighborhood", painted by graffiti artists from the Mathare Roots youth group, in the Mathare slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, April 30, 2020....

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Indian Territorial Army officers distribute ration and hygiene kits in Mumbai

The Times of India 28 May 2020

Some of the most affected of these are commercial sex workers, transgenders and daily wagers, hailing from slum areas, as well as diligent frontline workers. In an attempt to support these vulnerable groups in Mumbai, officers of the Indian Territorial Army came forward to distribute ration and hygiene kits....

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Noam Chomsky: Mutual Aid Is Rising — and It’s Key to Our Survival

truthout 28 May 2020

In this interview with world-renowned linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky, the public intellectual discusses the continuing legacy of anarchism, from public misconceptions to how anarchism is embedded in groups doing on-the-ground work ... Awful slums, little water, people jammed together....

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Living with the virus

Deccan Herald 27 May 2020

Preventing high-risk groups to cluster together is a luxury that India cannot afford easily. Take slums, for example, we cannot do anything to change the infrastructure. In urban slums, the actions should be guided by practically implementable solutions such as those practices in Dharavi, Mumbai....