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  • After performances, Sumaili and his colleagues hand out slips directing slum-dwellers to the MSI Zambia clinic, the health centre where they can obtain sexual and reproductive health advice.

    Acting out unsafe abortion dangers 2011

  • He had the ethical bee in his bonnet and was a reformer of no mean pretension, though his work had been mainly in the line of contributions to the heavier reviews and quarterlies and to the publication over his name of brightly, cleverly written books on the working classes and the slum-dwellers.

    The Benefit of the Doubt 2010

  • What's predicted for India's solar market is not unlike the recent explosion in cell phones, as villagers and slum-dwellers alike embraced mobile technology over lumbering landline connections.

    India's rural poor give up on power grid, go solar 2011

  • The conditions that characterise life in Chamwino are, in many respects, similar to those endured by slum-dwellers the world over: the lack of access to basic services, such as healthcare and sanitation; the malnutrition and overcrowding, fuelled by a high birthrate; the families that live on top of each other in mud-floored, tin-roofed huts; the hunger and neglect that drive many children to a life on the streets.

    A new spirit of community 2011

  • Ms. Boo chronicles the slum-dwellers' daily work in gripping detail.

    City of Lost Children Karan Mahajan 2012

  • And all the destruction and violence had been done by the slum-dwellers and the upper classes.

    THE DREAM OF DEBS 2010

  • In ensuing years, the court began to issue sweeping directives to protect the rights of prisoners, slum-dwellers and bonded laborers, and later waded into major environmental disputes.

    In India, the Supreme Court Takes an Activist Role Amol Sharma 2011

  • What's predicted for India's solar market is not unlike the recent explosion in cell phones, as villagers and slum-dwellers alike embraced mobile technology over lumbering landline connections.

    India's rural poor give up on power grid, go solar 2011

  • The planetary slum-dwellers of failed states may find the rollicking life of a Somali pirate far more attractive than the hard work of state-building.

    Panic in the streets, panic in the skies, panic on the underground, panic pukka pies « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009

  • The citizen groups helped them cut the cost of finding qualified buyers and convincing the slum-dwellers that the businesses could be trusted to deliver.

    Snapshots on Startups Eric bellman 2010

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