Every year, extreme rainfall during the monsoon season, which begins in June and ends in September, results in approximately ...

An international study on container-based sanitation (CBS) systems has found that this portable toilet option significantly improves the quality of life for people living in urban slums in Kenya, Peru ...

Ronald Eligu, executive director of the Touch the Slum Charity Foundation, is transforming the lives of teen mothers and ...

Sustainable Development Goal 6 has a target to achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all by 2030 An international study on container-based sanitation (CBS) systems has ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - In Nehru Nagar, the teeming Mumbai slum featured in the Golden Globe-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire," the only music heard is on tiny radio sets and the young boys have no ...

Next to Mumbai's bustling international airport, a boy picks through refuse, looking for pieces he can recycle and sell to support his family of 11. He is a resident of Annawadi, a slum built on a ...

Young men who once lived the “gangster life” in Kenya's capital have become farmers with a social mission. MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in ...

Holding firmly at a cue-stick on his right hand, the young man bends over a table strewn with tiny but differently coloured and numbered. With undivided attention, he points the cue-stick at a white ...

MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga's brother was shot ...