India’s Adani to convert Mumbai slum into modern city despite challenges
Mumbai, IndiaReuters Indian billionaire Gautam Adani on Thursday said he plans to convert India’s largest slum in Mumbai, Dharavi, into a modern city hub, a huge challenge which would require the rehousing of around a million people. Believed to be the largest slum in Asia, Dharavi is a crowded area that houses thousands of poor […]
Postcards: Bangkok’s micro homes – a model for slum dwelling in COVID-19?
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on hopes small homes which have helped residents during the coronavirus pandemic could be a model for the larger planned redevelopment of a Bangkok slum…
Living in uncertainty: Life stands still in Egypt’s City of the Dead as coronavirus fear spreads
MENNA A FAROUK, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Egypt on the plight of informal workers in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic…
POSTCARDS: GANGS TO GARDENS – KENYAN YOUTH SHUN CRIME TO CREATE GREEN SPACES
THOMAS BWIRE reports for Thomson Reuters Foundation from Nairobi…
HANDS OFF!: KENYAN SLUM DWELLERS UNITE TO PROTECT CITY DAM
KAGONDU NJAGI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the battle over land rights in Nairobi’s Kibera slum…
LIBERIA: AS HIGH SEAS THREATEN SLUM, RESIDENTS AWAIT PROMISED HOMES
SALLY HAYDEN, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Colourful makeover puts Mumbai slum on tourist map
Thomson Reuters Foundation A slum in Asalpha, in Mumbai’s eastern suburbs, got a colourful makeover through a charity initiative aimed at brightening slums, home to more than half the city’s population. PICTURE: Courtesy of Chal Rang De. A colourful paint job has transformed one of Mumbai’s drab hilltop slums into a tourist destination, even prompting […]
WEALTH: FORGET DAVOS, DANDORA HOLDS THE KEY TO INEQUALITY SAY ACTIVISTS
As world leaders meet in Davos, Switzerland, this week, NITA BHALLA, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on an alternative gathering taking place in a Kenyan slum…