With simple words, mapping apps offer help to refugees, slum dwellers
Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Attic.Caramel.Truth is not a crossword puzzle. It is the address of India’s most famous monument – the Taj Mahal – on a mapping app that aims to help millions of slum dwellers, rural residents, refugees and those in need of emergency aid. As smartphones become a common sight in developing nations […]
As glacial lake bursts, preparation saves lives in Pakistan
Karachi, PakistanThomson Reuters Foundation Efforts to prepare Pakistani mountain communities threatened by the collapse of glacial lakes, as climate change brings faster glacier melt, paid off this week as a flood ravaged five villages in Chitral district but appeared to cost no lives, Pakistan and international officials said. The flood on Sunday in the Golain […]